Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

In the dark realms of space, about 14,700 light-years away, an unusual object is doing something unexpected. And it's leaving ...