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

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For 66 years, we've been listening for alien signals. In that time, we found exactly nothing. But three studies just dropped ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

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A lunar far side experiment finds no alien signals but proves the Moon could offer the quietest listening post yet for future ...

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

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When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never attempted to mate. This suggested that a specific, female-derived chemical cue ...

From ‘Gravity’ to ‘Spaceman’ to ‘Interstellar’ and beyond, these are our favorite films about humans all alone on the final frontier.

When I was an intelligence officer, we had a saying about looking for "bad guys" in terrorist networks: "Don't look for your lost keys only under the lamppost." This means don't restrict your hunt for ...