Raising several questions about why this article is appearing in the news cycle this week.

Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

The object, called 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System.

Disclosure Day director Steven Spielberg recently went on the record to say he absolutely believes that aliens have visited ...

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 ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...