For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is set to investigate Jupiter’s icy moon for signs of a vast subsurface ocean and the chemical ...

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

There are huge gaps in our knowledge of how to survive space. A lab in north east England is trying to change that.

After nine episodes, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV series, Pluribus, comes to a close. During this first ...

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 ...

3I/ATLAS came within 168 million miles of Earth around midnight CST Friday. While that might seem pretty far away, the ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.