One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life ...

The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way ...

A water world ruled by octopus-like creatures. A planet divided by light and dark where the sun never rises. And a lava hell where molten rock rains from the sky. These are not descriptions of foreign ...

09:39, Thu, Jan 16, 2025 Updated: 09:39, Thu, Jan 16, 2025 Scientists have discovered a terrifying alien planet that, while it may look like Earth, conceals some deadly conditions that have led NASA ...

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 ...

Unlike our 24-hour circadian rhythms, aliens may need a different cycle to regulate alertness, appetite, and more SLEEPLESS aliens may be living on distant exoplanets with no daylight or seasons. The ...

A new laser has been developed by scientists to detect aliens on other planets. The miniature device has been tailored to NASA space missions with an aim to revolutionise the search for ...

British researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life on another planet. The researchers have been studying an exoplanet, K2-18b, which is 124 light years away. An exoplanet is any ...

'Extraterrestrial' objects recovered from the bottom of the Pacific ocean are 'most likely' just fragments of a faraway planet that was struck by a meteorite, an astrophysicist has said. The 'alien' ...