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

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 ...

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

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

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

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal ...