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 ...

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

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

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...