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

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

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

Just north of the Martian equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater that scientists believe may have been the site of an ancient lake. Here at Jezero Crater, scientists theorize that its frozen ...

Chinese scientists have identified eight potential karst caves on Mars, formed by water, marking a significant breakthrough in astrobiology.

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

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

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

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

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

These findings come from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft ...