Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence Several billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, ...

One of humanity's greatest mysteries might have been solved 50 years ago - but NASA might have destroyed all evidence of it. Since its formation, the space agency has performed a series of projects to ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the biggest telescope ever built is taking shape – and it could radically change our view of the Universe.

Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) have resurfaced at the centre of online discussion after a widely shared interview revisited reports of supposed 'non-human' life linked to recovered unidentified ...

A leading scientist has suggested that an ocean planet could be "brimming with extraterrestrial beings," following a groundbreaking discovery. Planet K2-18b, situated some 120 light years from Earth, ...

RESEARCHERS have been employing new methods to fuel the search for extraterrestrial life. In a new article for The Conversation, Beatriz Villarroel, an assistant professor of Physics at Stockholm ...

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace ...

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

A Nasa illustration shows the Europa Clipper spacecraft flying past Jupiter’s moon Europa (Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech via Reuters) Humans have been trying to find alien life for a century or longer, ...