Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says he has received briefings on extraterrestrial life that would deeply unsettle the American ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

The United States would become “unglued” if everyday Americans learned what the government has discovered about aliens — and ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

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

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

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

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

Astronomers have reportedly narrowed the search for extraterrestrial life to a focused list of 45 rocky exoplanets. Out of ...