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

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to hunt for alien life on the surface of one of Saturn’s moons. Scientists want to send a probe to the icy world of Enceladus, which contains a ...

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

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...

The opening scenes of Noah Hawley's "Alien: Earth" reveal that humankind will attempt to achieve immortality through these methods: cybernetically enhanced humans, artificial intelligence, and ...

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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 ...