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

The curious minds at What If explain how finding alien life with the right telescope could completely alter our understanding ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

Carolyn Freissinet, who studies Martian samples collected by the Curiosity rover, said recent claims of alien life simply don't stack up - but the scientists behind the findings beg to differ.

The mesmerising bubble rings created by humpback whales may hold the answer to discovering alien lifeforms, scientists believe.