Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

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Glasgow Clyde College is preparing to make history by broadcasting a lecture into outer space as part of a new course ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio University Professor William Romoser has identified what he believes to be ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

New lab experiments explore whether or not certain rudimentary lifeforms could exist in the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...