Waiting for news about life on Mars? You’re 120 years late. That story broke on Dec. 9, 1906, when The New York Times ran a major piece under the brooking-no-argument headline, “There Is Life on the ...

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with civilizations, a growing body of research argues that complex, technological life ...

Although scientists at the University of Cambridge suggest they have detected chemical signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth, a Harvard professor says there are problems with that ...

The search for intelligent life is looking in the wrong direction. There are billions of stars in our galaxy, some of them older than our sun and with Earth-like planets orbiting around them.

The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if certain planetary conditions are met, a new study suggests. This idea displaces ...