When Nikku Madhusudhan, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, addressed his audience during a live-streamed presentation about his possible detection of life on another planet, ...

A Harvard University astrophysicist claims biological creatures would not be able to survive the journey to Earth, which puts the kibosh on any reports on alien sightings in our skies. Avi Loeb says ...

Interstellar objects such as Comet 3I/ATLAS can be sent by alien civilizations to "sow" life on Earth. At the same time, it is almost impossible that for the entire time of Earth's existence the Earth ...

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 ...

Smile: you might be some alien‘s favourite character on the reality TV show called Earth. A new scientific report suggests that there are 29 planets in our cosmic neighbourhood where alien life could ...

Will we discover alien life by 2075? A top scientist predicts we will. Learn about the search for life beyond Earth, from ...

An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...

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Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained ...