Is Pluto a planet? What's up with the "space jellyfish?" And are aliens real? Astrophysicist, speaker and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is stopping in Pittsburgh later this month, answers our ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

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