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

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 ...

From an adventurous fish, an ambitious dragon and a dastardly rat to a cunning mouse, lovestruck aliens and a lost stick, the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for New York’s so-called Green Light Law, ruling against the Trump ...

In Apple TV+’s ‘Pluribus,’ the whole world is changed by the arrival of an alien virus that grips everyone so suddenly that ...

A federal judge has given a green light to New York's so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

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