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

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

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 ...

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

Planets orbiting close to red dwarf stars risk getting hit by violent flares.Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) (Inside Science) — Shifting, slipping and colliding tectonic plates played an ...

Will we discover alien life by 2075? A top scientist predicts we will. Learn about the search for life beyond Earth, from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

The Alien franchise has always been about survival in the most inhospitable places imaginable, from derelict space freighters to hostile alien planets. But in Alien: Earth, the inhospitable terrain is ...