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On the latest episode of 13, the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies Anthony Aveni discusses his newest book, Aliens ...

What would it mean for humans if there were another species out there, and how big is the challenge when the human species is ...

The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

And while this discovery is intriguing, most astronomers—including the paper's authors—aren't ready to claim that it means extraterrestrial life exists. A detection of life would be a ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien ...

An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's ...