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Why are all living things carbon-based? Could extraterrestrial life instead be based on something like silicon?

It’s hard to imagine a more frightening existential threat than aliens landing on Earth, but one early sci-fi movie scared viewers on a visceral level by zooming into one eerily plausible way that extraterrestrials could invade our very bodies.

A new study calls for humanity to prepare for an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and examines the social consequences of such contact.

Humpback whale "conversations" provide valuable insight on how humans may one day communicate with life beyond Earth.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks to find life on other planets. Neutrinos, which interact weakly with matter, may be used to communicate with aliens. NU-SETI proposes setting up experiments to detect a non-uniform neutrino flux. METI, or Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a programme to send messages to potential…

Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly boundless expanse of the universe, which implies there’s potential for abundant life, the vast distances between stars render the search akin to locating a needle in a…

If there's a story that refuses to die, it's the one about aliens.

Letters: Readers respond to a piece about Harvard’s Avi Loeb and his explorations into extraterrestrial life

Jaime Maussen voices new claims about the ‘alien corpses’ and their extraterrestrial status

In his recently published book, Loeb delves into the journey that led him to view the peculiar characteristics of 'Oumuamua as proof of extraterrestrial life.

Researchers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life are investigating the geological faults of Saturn’s largest icy moon, Titan, and Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.