Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

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A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life. According to a recent study, tens of ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life. An astronomer explains.

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

New research from ETH Zurich challenges the long-held “follow the water” rule in the search for extraterrestrial life.

In Carlsbad Caverns, researchers found glowing cyanobacteria that thrive in darkness, suggesting new ways to search for alien ...

Is water enough to find alien life? New research reveals phosphorus and nitrogen are crucial. Discover the 'chemical ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...