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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

As the year draws to a close, many people begin to discuss their opinions about the predictions made by famous seers such as ...

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

The Oscar nominee comes full circle from the 'Alien' franchise in James Cameron’s newest Pandora adventure — and not just ...

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure ...

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

It's the oldest question on Earth. Where did we come from? Some people may thank a creator from above, but what if the hand that created humanity wasn't divine? What if aliens brought life to Earth?

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 ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...