Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

People returning home after decades of incarceration are forced to navigate a digital world that didn't exist when they went in. The Michigan nonprofit Nation Outside makes it their goal to teach ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Elon Musk plans to launch 1 million satellites to build orbital data centres, claiming it will help humanity evolve into an ...