Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

Life on Earth can be found in the strangest of places, from tens of thousands of metres in the sea to a bubbling tar pit in Trinidad. But scientists have suggested that life – alien life – could be ...

Huge "tiger stripe" fault lines seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus raise hopes that a "long-lived" ocean containing potential alien life may lurk beneath the moon's icy shell. When you purchase through ...