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 ...

Scientists have just uncovered new evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be hiding alien life beneath its frozen surface. Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers detected heat ...

Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that has fascinated people for centuries. Now, there is reason to be hopeful: Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, one of Britain’s top space scientists, believes ...

Aliens on Earth? Ocean life discovery could offer clues to life on other planets Chemosynthetic life communities in the Northwest Pacific could offer glimpse of what life might look like on other ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What ...

Imagine that you’re an astronomer conducting a radio survey of the heavens. Maybe you’re searching for pulsars, or radio galaxies, or just mapping neutral hydrogen. Then, out of nowhere, you detect a ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...