To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it should orbit its star at the right distance, where temperatures allow liquid water to exist.

Obama replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … what is it …?” “Area 51?” the interviewer responded. Then Obama said, “Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of a powerful CME on the star EK Draconis spewing energetic plasma and radiation on an orbiting planet, potentially kick-starting ...

Most people believe in life on other planets, a newly released study that canvassed respondents around the world claims. After surveying 26,492 people in 24 countries, research firm Motivaction found that more than 60 percent of respondents believed that ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion in the middle of the desert. First photos of the eye-in-the-sky rising

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will be speaking at the Civic Theater in San Diego about the search for habitable planets and intelligent life in the universe.

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such planets might find it hard to rocket off them and travel to ...

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 Physics—researchers have discovered ... It seems that we are ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth”, a class of planets that are rocky worlds ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally published at ...