Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

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

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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