NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven advanced technology partners for its next major mission, the Habitable Worlds ...

Thanks to theorists like Ruth Murray-Clay, astronomers are decoding how distant planets form, evolve, and maybe even host life. When Ruth Murray-Clay entered graduate school, only a handful of ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...