Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said the American people would be “up at night worrying” if they knew what he’s been briefed on ...

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...