Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

Nasa is attempting an unprecedented mission to rescue its ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it re-enters Earth’s ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Those pesky space aliens are at it again … or I should say, conspiracy theorists’ hopes, dreams, fantasies and wish fulfillment, along with a combination of government reluctance to give adversaries ...

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the ...