Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

Somewhere in the ocean's depths swims a small fish with a see-through skull, tubular eyes, and visual tricks that break every rule biology textbooks lay down about how vertebrates see.

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Astronomer Jill Tarter has been scanning the skies for signals from intelligent aliens for the past 35 years, but now she's making a career change. Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...