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 discuss how humanity’s future could be reshaped by the search for alien life.

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

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 ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

As science develops and our observational instruments improve, there’s a growing optimism within the exoplanet community that ...

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