A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, raising the chances that it has the conditions to support life.

, July 10 -- Scientists searching for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life say some of the coldest objects in the Milky Way may not be stars at all but massive energy-collecting structures built by advanced alien civilizations.

SETI may have missed alien signals for 60 years because stellar plasma smears transmissions into noise, a new Astrophysical Journal study finds.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might ...

Researchers in a recent breakthrough study have found the possibility of structures in the Milky Way that could be built by advanced alien civilizations.In the research study conducted by

Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body hundreds of times heavier than Earth. For a brief ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), narrowband ...

Through the looking glass: The fact that we have yet to discover alien life continues to baffle scientists. While there are many possible explanations, a new theory offers a rather grim perspective: perhaps advanced alien civilizations reach a point where ...