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

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

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

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

A planet that could have similar conditions to Earth has been found 40 light years away. Gliese 12b is about the size of Venus. It's a lot cooler than other planets found outside of the solar system - ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

Renowned space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock is 'absolutely convinced' life exists beyond Earth, predicting confirmation by ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Scientists at Durham University are helping to develop a new type of camera intended to help search for life on distant planets. Researchers there are part of a UK team designing a high-resolution ...