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

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 ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

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

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...