If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto In a few days, a £1.4bn probe will be blasted into space on an eight-year mission to find ...

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.

Powerful telescopes could soon pick up signs indicating possible alien life on distant planets. Devices such as the James Webb space telescope, launched in 2021, are observing the cosmos in ...

THE thought that we’re not alone has intrigued and perplexed ever since Neanderthal man first raised his eyes skywards and wondered what that big silvery circle thing in the sky was. Did you know with ...

One of humanity's greatest mysteries might have been solved 50 years ago - but NASA might have destroyed all evidence of it. Since its formation, the space agency has performed a series of projects to ...

Europe's hugely-anticipated Juice mission is on its way to Jupiter after successfully blasting into space at the second attempt. The £1.4 billion, six-tonne spacecraft launched on the back of an ...

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 ...

While the multiverse is a difficult topic to explore, Paul Sutter explains why it's so complex and if it can help us discover extraterrestrial life. A parallel universe is a fun topic in physics, but ...

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 ...

Forget the grainy footage of 'flying saucers' or the campy sci-fi tropes of little green men from Mars; the search for extraterrestrial life has officially moved from the fringes of the paranormal ...

The president promised to spill the beans about little green men. Is that why the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the domains alien.gov and aliens.gov, asks Arwa Mahdawi ...