But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

Could alien signals have already reached Earth undetected? - If advanced alien civilisations exist and have contacted Earth, ...

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 ...

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

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...