January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

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HE’S here to talk about the UFOs… you know, the ones in the forest,” I hear a few of the bar staff whisper. There are no tin-foil hats in sight, no newspaper clippings nor ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...

Europa, one of Jupiter's moons NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute Europa is one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, and perhaps among the planet’s most famous orbiters. It’s covered in a shell of ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...