The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Natasha Verma to unlock big cosmic questions with wit and clarity: Have aliens ...

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know ...

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 ...

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

Astrobiology faces the fundamental challenge of searching for extraterrestrial life without a universal definition of life or examples beyond Earth, despite the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets, ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

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Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...