The Simpsons has been reduced to a brilliant cartoon series for several decades, but surprisingly, it has consistently proved to be the most unlikely .

Want to know how interesting life would be if you lived on the alien planet of Arcadia-7? Watch the latest StarRupture ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

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

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

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

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

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

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