One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

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

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

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

As far as underwhelming headlines go: "No Alien Life Found on Comet" must rank very close to the top. An article with this title appeared in the Guardian on July 6 in response to a story claiming that ...

May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not alone. Astronomers have reported seeing an unusual and strong combination ...

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 ...