"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, published in 2021, is one of my youngest son, Luca's, favorite hard science fiction novels. So you can imagine his excitement about the film rights being picked up, ...

Now is the perfect time to binge Netflix’s ambitious sci-fi series 3 Body Problem before the story continues with its highly ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

A new Project Hail Mary clip shows Ryan Gosling figuring out how to communicate with an alien named Rocky. In […] ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

In 2017 astronomers detected an unusual object entering our Solar System from interstellar space. Named ‘Oumuamua, it ...