Extraterrestrial Life

The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena

If they exist, they’ll find our puny forays into space completely insignificant

An ancient civilization from a distant star could have created immortal machines to roam the Milky Way and keep its legacy alive

The search for technological relics of extraterrestrial civilizations will inspire the public and attract talent to the field of astronomy

Project Galileo could make that happen sooner rather than later

After an alarming failure, the rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth

Mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts

If any of them represent advanced technology, high-resolution photographs might tell us whether they’re metaphorically labeled “Made in China” or “Made on Exoplanet X”

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable

As a SETI scientist, I’m grateful that he has the freedom—and the guts—to go where few would dare to go

The newly organized Galileo Project will use a three-pronged approach to replace unreliable eyewitness reports with reproducible scientific observations

In conversation, the Harvard University professor explains his shocking hypothesis—and calls out what he sees as a crisis in science