Donald Trump's administration has released highly-anticipated UFO files detailing "extraterrestrial encounters", as part of an effort to be more transparent about otherworldly phenomena. The release ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the scientific challenge of defining and searching for non-Earth-like alien life forms that may not ...

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 ...

Rendering of the process by which ancient microbes captured light with rhodopsin proteins. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed ...

Spread the loveThe cosmos, the final frontier, has always captivated humanity’s imagination. With the recent headlines ...

A team of UC Berkeley scientists has painstakingly analyzed billions of radio signals received over fifteen years and have zeroed in on 100 that are most likely to be sent by extraterrestrial ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio telescopes stationed on opposite sides of the world, a supercomputer in Germany, ...