Extraterrestrial Life

With a $100-million donation, billionaire Yuri Milner plans to revolutionize the astronomical quest to find alien life

Entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner talks about the just-announced $100-million Breakthrough Listen Project to search for extraterrestrial technological civilizations

Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars

High-resolution images of the icy worlds reveal towering mountains, yawning canyons and perhaps hints of a subsurface ocean

Early this morning, if all has gone well, the first golden age of interplanetary exploration will have come to a close

The newfound planet is 96 light years away, but it's the closest twin to Jupiter astronomers have ever directly seen

NASA’s former director of astrophysics plans to revolutionize space science with agile, privately funded missions

Brown University researchers have detected glass deposits on Mars that might contain evidence of past conditions and, possibly, life

Scientists have found ancient "impact glass" on the surface of Mars, which formed when asteroids struck, a billion or more years ago. If anything was alive at the time, biological materials could be trapped inside. Christopher Intagliata reports

The Thirty Meter Telescope can revolutionize astronomy and become a part of the holy mountain’s rich cultural heritage

Bright spots in the latest pictures from NASA’s mission to the dwarf planet may be water ice, researchers say