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

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

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

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

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

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

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting Enceladus to uncover life beyond earth ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...