Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—a nearby M-dwarf star. The newfound alien world, ...

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Extraterrestrials are already here on Earth, disguised as humans or living in secret bases hidden underground or even on the far side of the moon, according to a shocking new scientific paper from Ivy ...