A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. The question of ...

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond ...

Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life is not just possible but likely. The claim that we could confirm life ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

One of the unexpected joys of having small children is having to adjust your mindset to the pace and contours of how they experience the world. Unencumbered by the frameworks and presuppositions that ...

Scientists used the 100-metre Green Bank Telescope to look for alien signals but detected no radio signals from 3I/ATLAS.

Scientists say there's a one in three chance we're alone in the universe – and will never make contact with aliens. In a new study, Dr Veres Antal, associate professor of mathematics at the Hungarian ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red sprites. These rare upper-atmosphere lightning phenomena occur high above ...

It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe? Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are ...

Grey squirrels, Sitka spruce, ash dieback disease and Japanese knotweed are all highly damaging invasive alien species in Ireland. Among other impacts, invasive species threaten nature, impact on food ...