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

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.

Either because they are comforting or because they offer something new on multiple rewatches, some sci-fi shows keep bringing ...

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 ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

New research shows invasive species are reducing insect populations worldwide and weakening ecosystems people rely on.

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

New polarimetry data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals bizarre refractory dust, proving this alien visitor formed in a ...