If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The question on their minds is instead: when will we find it? Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a ...

It is easy to wax lyrical about aliens. The prospect of life on other planets has shaped much of our culture and continues to inspire books, TV shows, movies – and the odd conspiracy theory of course.

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

The president promised to spill the beans about little green men. Is that why the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the domains alien.gov and aliens.gov, asks Arwa Mahdawi ...

BRITISH scientists have claimed alien lifeforms may have evolved in a similar way to the organisms here on Earth. A new study from the University of Oxford suggested that the process of natural ...

How can we possibly spot alien life outside the solar system when it’s so far away? It’s a problem that has long baffled astronomers, but there could be a new telltale sign. Planets that look ...

Forget the grainy footage of 'flying saucers' or the campy sci-fi tropes of little green men from Mars; the search for extraterrestrial life has officially moved from the fringes of the paranormal ...

While the multiverse is a difficult topic to explore, Paul Sutter explains why it's so complex and if it can help us discover extraterrestrial life. A parallel universe is a fun topic in physics, but ...

The universe is simply huge, containing billions of stars, planets, and galaxies. When children get to know the enormity of ...

Europe's hugely-anticipated Juice mission is on its way to Jupiter after successfully blasting into space at the second attempt. The £1.4 billion, six-tonne spacecraft launched on the back of an ...