NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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

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 ...

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 organisms could reach Earth through our own crafts exploring outer space, scientists have warned. Humanity has, over time, moved species across continents as we migrate; it is possible the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

SCIENTISTS believe they will find alien life on thousands of planets in the next ten to 20 years. A task force of experts from the UK, US and Switzerland, named the Origins Federation, launched ...

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 ...

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 ...

A huge "nightmare world" where it "rains glass" and winds blow at a speed of up to 5,400mph has been found just 64.5 light-years from Earth. Scientists have discovered a terrifying alien planet that, ...