The Competition Bureau says it heard a variety of concerns from Canadians during its recent study into the use of algorithms ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

A new study shows how salt-enriched ice can sink through pure ice, potentially delivering nutrients to deeper parts of the ocean.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star. The newfound alien world, designated ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

If you've got a sneaking suspicion that there is alienlife out there, you are, er, not alone! In fact, a study shows 95 per ...