Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and works from Sagan's old office. In this episode of The Space Show, she reveals how we may be just a few years away from answering humanity's greatest question: are we alone in the universe? Watch more from this series: ...

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza ...

Panspermia is a theory that life can spread naturally between planets. Amir Siraj studies how life on Earth might have first arrived from another world. He is the youngest person included in this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list of scientists, and is a student at Harvard University and the New ...

When an object called ʻOumuamua' was detected flying through our solar system in 2017, scientists were baffled by its strange behavior. Many said it was just a bizarre space rock, but Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes it was most likely a relic of an alien civilization. And he thinks you ...