We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

Scientists might have discovered life outside the Solar System. Welcome to planet K2-18 b. This exoplanet is 124 light-years ...

(390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our ...

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

This bizarre film has to be seen to be believed—but it should definitely be seen. In it, tiny heroin-seeking aliens land on ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

From a celebration of a historic artist-in-residence program to photography that explores space and the queer experience, ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...