Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have taken a close look at our activity within the solar system to determine where to look for signals from intelligent ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

Imagine you’re an alien astronomer, pointing your telescope toward our solar system, listening for signs of intelligent life. Would you hear us? For decades, scientists have wondered the same thing. A ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the solar system had already been named Earth's twin. With its similar size and mass, Venus measures very close to ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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