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

James Webb has detected a molecule in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b that could be linked to life. The molecule, ...

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

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

Breakthrough Listen searched for technosignatures from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS but found no unusual signals or behavior ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

From science-fiction technologies like warp drives and levitation to the search for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...