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.

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 ...

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

Researchers have decided that a potentially good way to prepare for future contact with extraterrestrial beings is by ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference ...

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

How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal ...

After the "orca uprising" captivated anti-capitalists, scientists are intrigued by another form of marine mammal communication.