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

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Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility of alien worlds around a red supergiant. We examine the challenges of ...

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

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