A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the ...

Alien: Isolation 2’s first reveal trailer is here, revealed at last night’s Summer Game Fest, and it confirms that this sequel will bring you down to.. well, not Earth exactly, but you’ll be roaming ...

Before his death, Stephen Hawking consistently warned humanity against contacting aliens. As interest in UFOs and little ...

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

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

GJ 3378b could be just large enough and just close enough to its star to host life (Picture: Nasa) Aliens could call a planet about a 282 million-year drive away home, scientists say. GJ 3378b is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." It's a line that has motivated ...

English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” It’s a line that has motivated ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

Illumination, responsible for hits such as the “Minions” and “Sing” franchises, has released the trailer for “Not Alone,” a new alien-themed animated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez.