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

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 ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...

Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

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

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

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The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long been of interest to NASA because they believe it could host an ocean underneath its ...