If aliens are using an interstellar beacon to contact Earth, scientists at the SETI Institute are going to find it. The team believes advanced lifeforms have placed a transmitter in the center of the ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Astronomers have typically used something known as the Drake Equation to calculate how many technically advanced alien civilisations there are in the Universe. In 1961, scientist Frank Drake came up ...

Astronomers are accelerating their search to answer the ultimate question – does alien life exist elsewhere in the Universe? One technique at their disposal involves analysing light scattered off a ...

ASTRONOMERS performing the biggest search for alien life have come back empty handed so are making all the data they have collected public in the hope of someone else spotting something. This will be ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It has been called the Fermi paradox, after the physicist Enrico Fermi, and it asks why - if it is so probable that life exists elsewhere in the universe - haven't we found any? The common suggestion ...