Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...