Scientists have discovered an 'alien' material inside a massive crater on Earth, sparking new questions about how life may ...

When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

Scientists propose that a moon base could act as an isolated first line of biological defense against extraterrestrial ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...