Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

A new study suggests alien life may be easier to detect through clusters of similar planets rather than single biosignatures.

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A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...

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Erik Aadahl, the sound designer behind “Project Hail Mary” and 2014’s “Godzilla,” uses his background in biology to bring ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...