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“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

On Friday, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its nearest approach to Earth. Here's what you need to know, and how to track ...