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

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

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

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

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

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

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

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...