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

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Just north of the Martian equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater that scientists believe may have been the site of an ancient lake. Here at Jezero Crater, scientists theorize that its frozen ...

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Because Titan is tidally locked, the same side of the moon faces Saturn all the time, just like our own moon and Earth.

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

As we close out 2025, certain songs linger not because they dominated the charts but because they captured something true ...

A new analysis of Saturn's moon Titan that reduced the odds of a subsurface liquid ocean has increased the chances of ...

These findings come from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...