A new interpretation of the famous Drake equation finds little reason to be optimistic about the search for extraterrestrial ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

And that without the capacity to tolerate life's partial or total meaninglessness, we become perilously susceptible to ...

Even if superintelligent aliens exist, we’re far likelier to detect their technosignatures, such as radio waves, than to actually meet them, ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists. So, scientists ...

This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside.

We’ve still not found aliens, even though a majority of the scientific community, as well as the general public, believe they exist. Mind you, radio waves from the cosmos are commonplace, ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. “That’s the ...

The problem facing SETI scientists is that, based on observations so far, F probably is not near 1; otherwise, we would have noticed by now that we are not alone, assuming that intelligent aliens ...