The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Are aliens real? A Nature Astronomy study reveals 87% of experts believe life exists. Explore how 3I/ATLAS and AI are ...

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

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 ...

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 ...