Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...
New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...
Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...
Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...
Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests. reading time 2 minutes The search for alien life is ...
The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...
Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...
A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...
Long before the discovery of the first planet beyond our Solar System, SETI Institute research scientist Laurance Doyle began theorizing about the habitability of planets around other stars, ...
Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...