Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

Last Updated on February 28, 2026 by Daily News Staff For decades, the idea of aliens visiting Earth has lived in a cultural ...

When it comes to Star Trek plots, every rule is made to be broken, whether it's about safely making out with attractive ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

All this changed as the Star Trek timeline continued, though. By the time of The Next Generation, Picard could simply ask the computer a question and get a primer on the latest alien race. The Alpha ...

Questions about what the federal government may know about extraterrestrial life in the cosmos — or possibly even here on ...

What would happen, then, should the first unquestionable indication of alien technology come in the form of a momentary flare, powerful enough to be observed, but too short to question? The ...

Popular culture imagines aliens as creatures made of flesh and bone — but some researchers argue that advanced civilizations ...