Psychic spy veteran Lyn Buchanan claims the CIA accessed 23andMe and Ancestry.com to search for people with extraterrestrial ...

The scientific community tends to employ ‘confidence of life’ detection scales: a multi-step ‘ladder’ that begins with ...

Dyson sphere stability — once considered an impossible physics problem — may be within reach. A peer-reviewed paper in ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

Astronomers using the JWST discovered massive “rock clouds” made of vaporized minerals on the distant planet WASP-94A b.

The Department of War just dumped a huge batch of UFO files, but does it have proof of aliens? Here's what we make of it.

Astronomers have reportedly narrowed the search for extraterrestrial life to a focused list of 45 rocky exoplanets. Out of more than 6,000 confirmed worlds, these planets were selected based on their ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life. In the last 30 ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...