In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

JWST has made another breakthrough. Around a newly formed star just 111 light-years away, the powerful space telescope has ...

Space travel—it’s unbelievably cool, but most of us won’t ever have the opportunity to check out alien planets. Lucky for you, the Earth is vast and strange, and that means it has a host of ...

Discovered only in 2005, the yeti crab (family Kiwaidae) represents one of science’s most recent encounters with Earth’s alien life forms. These crustaceans inhabit some of the planet’s most extreme ...

Needless to say, any discovery of alien life would likely lead to chaos — at least in public discourse. Glaze said NASA's goal is to be a trusted, transparent source of clear scientific information.

Most people agreed that last year's Alien: Romulus was a return to form for the long-running sci-fi horror franchise, nightmare CG Ian Holm aside. Now, with a follow-up practically confirmed after ...

I look up into an alien sky. This is an extract from Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor, £10.99), the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club. Sign up and read along with us here Topics: ...

When we turn to "complex" extraterrestrial life or "intelligent" aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists.

A theoretical planet-free alien colony would have to overcome many challenges, including a lack of resources, exposure to cosmic radiation and the vacuum of space, and access to enough sunlight ...

The study found that an exponentially growing alien species using 100% renewable energy would still heat up their planet with waste heat, which is inevitably produced from any energy expenditure ...

Scientists recently explored the intriguing possibility that alien life may not need a planet to support itself. At first glance, planets seem like the ideal locations to find life.