Using an array of powerful radio telescopes high in the desert mountains of northern Chile, astronomers have confirmed the first discovery of alien exomoons. In our own solar system, there are over ...

Scientists have long believed Saturn’s moon Titan hid a massive underground ocean, but new research suggests something even ...

Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986 on its never-ending journey out into the depths of space - beaming back to Earth the only up-close images we have of the ice giant and its moons.

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

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

In the new movie Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.

ALIENS may have lived on the moon during TWO separate periods, researchers believe as part of a shock new study – meaning Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin may not have been the first forms of life on ...

A DISTANT moon in our solar system might mirror Earth’s seasons, according to scientists, who also believe it could be a candidate for finding nearby alien life. And scientists just spotted a ...

Deep inside Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn some 890 million miles from Earth, one of our best chances of discovering alien life is heating up. Enceladus is less than one per cent the size of our ...

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