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 ...

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 ...

The exoplanet, called K2-18b, contains huge quantities of dimethyl sulphide - a chemical only produced by living organisms. The planet is 124 light-years from Earth - so it would take us hundreds of ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This brutal event has led to Nasa branding it “the roasted planet”, as the space ...