Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

Analysis: the telescope allows us to spot starlight-absorbing gases, which might indicate the presence of life on distant planets The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, ...

Well, at least that means no alien invasions anytime soon.

Samantha Rolfe of the University of Hertfordshire writes about the possibility that alien life exists on Earth, but we just can’t see it. Life is pretty easy to recognise. It moves, it grows, it eats, ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions within the next few decades. Maggie Aderin-Pocock says she is “absolutely ...

Humans are affecting the Earth’s systems on a global scale. Industrial pollutants are accumulating in our atmosphere with the potential for long-term impact on global climate and biodiversity. This is ...

James Webb Telescope: The most ambitious and powerful space observatory ever built is set to launch Researchers believe that there could be potential lifeforms producing ammonia in the clouds of Venus ...

Scientists said they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbour, a tantalising sign of potential life ...