Intelligent alien life has remained elusive despite decades of searching the skies, but new technologies and ideas are ...

Astrobiologist Lisa Kaltenegger spends her days building miniature worlds. Kaltenegger and her colleagues study how different species and combinations of bacteria, plants, and fungi change the ...

The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in distant galaxies outside our own. The research comes at a time when the notion that strange crafts ...

Scientists are looking for ways to detect alien warp drives lurking in space. While these hypothetical propulsion systems are most famous in science fiction stories like Star Trek, scientists believe ...