Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inq ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...