CHINA recently upped the ante in the search for alien life in the Universe with the completion of the world’s largest telescope. The vast telescope is made up of 4,450 panels and with a width of 500m ...

Canada is contributing to a new space telescope that one scientist says may help in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life. The Canadian Space Agency is providing a number of devices for the $8 ...

While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

An alien hunting telescope has picked up a faint and interesting signal — but it’s not from aliens. Instead, the recently refurbished Allen Telescope Array in California on 9 July picked up the signal ...

Scientists have lost one of their most powerful tools for hunting asteroids, planets and alien life after damage forced Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory to shut down for good. The massive facility is ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has a new launch date after an “incident” delayed its launch. The mission had been scheduled to launch on 18 December. But Nasa said earlier this week that there had ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet - a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, according to ...

Alien-hunting telescopes have peered at the mysterious star KIC8462852 and are quickly unraveling the theory that this star could harbor an alien megastructure. The search is just the beginning of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

While thousands of exoplanets - planets outside of our solar system - have been discovered, getting pictures of them still proves tricky THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever ...