High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

HE’S here to talk about the UFOs… you know, the ones in the forest,” I hear a few of the bar staff whisper. There are no tin-foil hats in sight, no newspaper clippings nor ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Science fiction movies are notoriously popular for not providing audiences with neat explanations at the end. For me, that is ...

Avi Loeb warns 3I/ATLAS's symmetrical jets defy comet norms, hinting at possible tech. Hubble data and expert debate fuel the ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...