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

Sometimes you only need one of these big guys to come your way,” observed Julián Alvarado-Gómez of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. These comments evoke the significance of the recent ...

There are huge gaps in our knowledge of how to survive space. A lab in north east England is trying to change that.

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

With tons of "Star Trek" alien races depicted over the decades, consistency is a tall order. And in the case of these aliens, ...