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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have found signs of what could finally settle the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? Nearly 124 light years away from Earth, on ...

Have you ever played hide-and-seek in a new place? It’s much harder than playing at home. You only know the obvious hiding spots: under the bed, in the closet, behind the couch. The trick is trying to ...

Astronomers say they’ve spotted a possible sign of life in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light-years away, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. As detailed in a new paper published in ...

Astronomers have found that Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, is spewing out copious amounts of complex organic molecules, suggesting it’s an even more promising place to look for extraterrestrial life than ...

Current extraterrestrial life searches primarily focus on life resembling Earth-based life due to limitations in imagining alternative life forms and the need for a starting point in the investigation ...