When interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS exhibited some peculiar movements, speculation arose regarding potential alien origins.

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

Humans may, one day, be able to inhabit other planets. Some advocates argue that remaining on only one courts disaster.

At a frozen Himalayan lake, explorers braved brutal winds to photograph Jupiter at its brightest, revealing rare zodiacal ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...