Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger says the first things you notice when you enter her biology lab at Cornell ...

The most comprehensive study of exoplanets ever recorded has revealed that water may be more “common” on other planets than Earth than had previously been thought. Water is considered to be one of the ...

Are we alone in the universe? The director of the Carl Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos takes us on an eye-opening tour of some of the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our world view ...

It was in 1979 when Ridley Scott’s Alien introduced us to a space where no one can hear you…being terrorized by chest-bursting, face-hugging extraterrestrials. Seven films later, the slimy reptilian ...