For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Contacting extraterrestrial life was a mission that was taken seriously by astronomers and the scientific community. A new investigation found that we could calculate the distance to the nearest alien ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

Last January, Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, stood on the Antarctic Ice Sheet and watched as a massive drill sprayed hot water into a hole. Tulaczyk and his team ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What ...

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 ...