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

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

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Smile: you might be some alien‘s favourite character on the reality TV show called Earth. A new scientific report suggests that there are 29 planets in our cosmic neighbourhood where alien life could ...

MADISON, Wis. – Some U.S. scientists are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by studying some rocks right here on Earth. Some of the rocks are up to 3.5 ...

The search for aliens has led astronomers to scour the farthest reaches of the cosmos for signs of life. But a new study suggests that we might not need to look so far from home. According to NASA ...

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

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

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

A mysterious interstellar comet with bizarre features has revived one of the boldest scientific claims yet, the possibility that Earth’s life may have been intentionally “seeded” by an advanced ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between hydrogen and molten rock within sub-Neptunes ...