The most comprehensive study of exoplanets ever recorded has revealed that water may be more “common” on other planets than Earth than had previously been thought. Water is considered to be one of the ...

Scientists have been puzzled by the lack of any indication of intelligent life in three decades of search using radio telescopes. Nasa What should the message from Earth be for extra-terrestrial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger says the first things you notice when you enter her biology lab at Cornell ...

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs of alien life. Despite its extensive efforts, the universe remains eerily ...

Are we alone in the universe? The director of the Carl Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos takes us on an eye-opening tour of some of the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our world view ...

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees. It's taken more than four ...

Advanced aliens, if they exist, may have no physical bodies at all and could be built from materials nothing like human flesh ...

About 3.8 billion years ago existence first sprang up but scientists have been unable to figure out how it started. However, the mystery may have just been cracked by scientists who believe life was ...

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This “most ambitious book yet” by the former BBC science correspondent takes us on a journey through the evolving cosmos to consider how human survival might depend on communicating with intelligent ...