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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope ever launched, is set to begin a crucial observation mission in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. As reported by The Times, the ...

Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations It is our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering globe of light ...

Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her life hunting for signs of life in the universe. Here she talks about aliens, space exploration and why studying cosmology is like eating pizza ...

Between 1986 and 1990, creators Paul Fusco, Tom Patchett, and Bernie Brillstein managed to do the seemingly impossible when they made millions of fans fall in love with ALF, an alien from the ...

Lisa Kaltenegger, who currently directs the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, recently told The Telegraph that announcements of alien life discovery are imminent and that the James Webb will be the ...

The search for life beyond Earth requires expanding the very definition of what life can be. Some exoplanets, especially those orbiting cooler red dwarfs, might host purple plant life rather than ...

Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away ...

The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground ...

Astrophysics professor Lisa Kaltenegger is leading the charge in one of humanity’s most captivating endeavors — the search for life beyond Earth. Ms. Kaltenegger, 47, an acclaimed pioneer in ...

There’s a lot to love about Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien, including the masterful directing, suspenseful screenplay written by Dan O’Bannon, and its compelling ...

“Generally, when I’m on a plane, if I tell somebody that I search for life on planets around other stars, I don’t get to sleep,” says Lisa Kaltenegger, with a laugh. “It’s always a ...