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

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

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

James Webb has detected a molecule in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b that could be linked to life. The molecule, ...

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

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Researchers used the Green Bank Telescope to study the interstellar comet and found that it exhibits typical cometary behavior, with no unusual features detected ...

A new study referencing a past NASA Cassini observation found the presence of 'slushy tunnels' in Saturn's largest moon Titan ...