For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the stars asking the same question. Are we alone? Then one day, it finally ...

Confirmation of alien life would answer one enormous question and immediately create dozens more. Humanity’s reaction would ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

Finding certain complex molecules in large quantities on another world could be a sign of life. Living things build complicated molecules in bulk, and chemistry without life mostly doesn’t.

Scientists scour hydrothermal vents and replicate Mars’ atmosphere to understand how life may exist on other worlds.

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now ​found a world that ...

"Natural astrophysical processes rarely generate extremely narrow spectral features while engineered transmitters often do," writes a team of astronomers including first author Zi ...

Astronomers are always on the lookout for radio signals from outer space. Here on Earth, we rely on these signals for virtually all forms of wireless communication. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are two ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, it makes sense to first look for rocky planets with an atmosphere, like Earth. Without an atmosphere, a planet can't have surface water. But of the more than 6 ...

Lisa Nordin is an actress, writer, and fan of all things performing arts. Her favorite genres are Sci-Fi and Fantasy. She is a self-published author and enjoys exploring how fictional stories help ...

In episode seven of Lanterns, we learned that Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) was hiding a cosmic portal in his storage facility in Rushville. John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and the Halogram venture inside it ...