From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Imran Ahmed was sanctioned by the US State Department over allegations they were trying to 'coerce American platforms to ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...