Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

We might not be alone in the Universe. Scientists from all over the world have their eyes and ears wide open trying to detect signals of life beyond our planet. But we’re a bit tired of just sitting ...

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

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 she is 'absolutely convinced' there are aliens out there ...

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing the sheer number of cosmic bodies and galaxies, she says there has to be ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

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 ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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