A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lunar surface torn off by a meteor impact, so it could be a time capsule ...

CoRoT-2 b is a hot Jupiter 696 light-years away whose thermal hotspot is shifted in the wrong direction. New VLT data ...

Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining samples returned from space. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers propose turning a ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Spacecraft are no longer just visiting other worlds. They’re starting to bring pieces of them home. NASA returned asteroid dust to Earth in 2023, and scientists hope Mars rocks will follow in the ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

Bill Maher recently fired shots at the Presidential Center opened by Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, in Chicago. The grand opening of the center took place on June 18. It was attended by ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.” Reading time 3 minutes International ...

Instead of searching the skies for radio signals, scientists suggest the first evidence of an extinct alien civilisation could be buried in lunar soil.