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

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a strange, star-shaped scar has become an unlikely focal point in the search ...

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

On the cracked ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a sprawling pattern of dark lines has taken on an unsettling nickname: a “demon” ...