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 ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

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

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

In this video, we explore the mysteries of our universe, focusing on three intriguing topics: the absence of extraterrestrial ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

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

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...