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

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...