The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

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

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 ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

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

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

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

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 ...

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 ...