The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Lester Holt signed off from NBC Nightly News on Friday night after anchoring the program for ten years. He will now be ...

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

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Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.