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

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

Aliens?! Enchiladas?! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, what is coming to this world? Enceladus is Saturn’s ...

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

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our galaxy, astronomers have found surprisingly high levels of chlorine and potassium. These elements carry an odd number of protons in ...

Gilligan made good on his promise to himself. The resulting show, Pluribus, really is a wholly unique take on the sci-fi ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...