It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is mobilizing unprecedented technological resources. Next-generation telescopes, like ...

This gem of a film manages to draw together our questions about the universe and ourselves into one single adventure story ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

For decades, humanity has been searching the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, yet we remain alone in our corner of the universe. Despite the vastness of space and the billions of potentially ...

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

Humpback whales have been caught blowing bubble rings at humans in what may be playful or communicative acts. This discovery ...

Pixar's "Elio" follows an 11-year-old boy whom aliens mistakenly believe to be the leader of Earth. It hits theaters June 20.

NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

After the "orca uprising" captivated anti-capitalists, scientists are intrigued by another form of marine mammal communication.

For the first time in the franchise, FX and Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien: Earth will explore the groundbreaking concept of a ...