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

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

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 ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

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.

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 ...

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees. It's taken more than four ...

That's not the only place that life may be hiding either A “SWARM” of tiny robot fish could hunt for alien life in hidden oceans on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Nasa has revealed future-gazing ...

One of humanity's greatest mysteries might have been solved 50 years ago - but NASA might have destroyed all evidence of it. Since its formation, the space agency has performed a series of projects to ...

Is there life out there? (Picture: European Southern Observatory/AFP via Getty Images) The BBC is turning its gaze to the stars with a brand new documentary, First Contact, taking a closer look at the ...