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A planet that could have similar conditions to Earth has been found 40 light years away. Gliese 12b is about the size of Venus. It's a lot cooler than other planets found outside of the solar system - ...

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting ...

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

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

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Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter? There’s a space-age joke about a man who ...

To most people, extraterrestrial life is science fiction. However, research over the past 25 years has turned this topic into a real area of scientific inquiry. For the first time, scientists are ...

Scientists have detected an encouraging potential sign of life on a planet in a different solar system in what they believe is the “strongest indicator” that life exists beyond Earth. Researchers ...