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

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

The lunar lander is called "Lanyue" (Embracing the Moon) and it "marks the first time that China has carried out a test for ...

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

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

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

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

As the year draws to a close, many people begin to discuss their opinions about the predictions made by famous seers such as ...

In this Skywatch 16, Jeremy Lewan shares how newly available data can better help study the universe, evolution of galaxies, and the search for extraterrestrial life ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...