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 simulation created stunning sunsets from alien worlds across the solar system. The animation transports viewers to the surface of Venus, Mars, Uranus and Saturn’s largest moon Titan, allowing them ...

SCIENTISTS hunting for life on distant worlds may have more luck looking for enormous fires or fields of crops than radio signals beamed from super-advanced technologies. That’s according to new ...

Scientists have peered through the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and discovered weather patterns "like something out of science fiction". For the first time ever, astronomers mapped ...

alien beings living on a distant world around another star would look 'just like animals on Earth' and be formed from the same processes, an astrobiologist claims. Arik Kershenbaum, author of a new ...

TWO newly found planets within our galaxy are now prime targets in our search for alien life. The mystery worlds sit near one of our closest neighbouring stars, Teegarden, and both may have ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

18:04, Sun, Sep 13, 2020 Updated: 18:04, Sun, Sep 13, 2020 As the number of known exoplanets beyond our solar system grows, so does our knowledge of what these alien worlds look like. And although the ...

Ferocious floods on an inconceivable scale are now known to have once filled Gale Crater on the Red Planet’s equator 4 billion years ago, NASA has announced. The update comes after the Curiosity Rover ...

SCIENTISTS hunting for life on distant worlds may have more luck looking for enormous fires or fields of crops than radio signals beamed from super-advanced technologies. That's according to new ...