Physicist Brian Cox explores where scientists might discover extraterrestrial life, focusing on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, ...

It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

For a long time, the field of searching for life has relied on a single checklist: oxygen, methane, amino acids, and lipids.

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest ...

(BlackJack3D/iStockphoto/Getty Images) Water is crucial for life to flourish, which is why it's something scientists search ...

What can a lifeless Earth teach scientists about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The ...

It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science - if there are aliens out there, where are they hiding? Now, ...

New findings from a European Space Agency spacecraft suggest that Mars may still have volcanic activity beneath its surface.

The leading UFO expert Nick Pope reportedly claimed before his death that the government was deliberately keeping information ...

The future of the search for extraterrestrial life may lie in statistical methods, as Abigail Williams discovers ...

On planet Earth, our 'secondary atmosphere' has been with us for billions of years and its chemical balance reflects the ...