Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

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 ...

Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...