Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

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 ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. Reports of ...

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Dragonfly - a nuclear-powered robotic rotorcraft - will fly between locations on Titan and investigate its surface and atmosphere.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests alien life could be going undetected because scientists focus more on avoiding false discoveries than missing ...

In the late 1950s, a small group of scientists began to search for alien life. Among them was geneticist Joshua Lederberg at Stanford, who in 1960 spoke at the First International Space Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

Read an exclusive excerpt of her new book as Dr Seven Rasmussen reveals where she would look for life in the Solar System.

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Lab simulations suggest microbes could survive conditions found in Enceladus's underground ocean ...