When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

Percival Lowell, a 19th-century American businessman and astronomer, had a pet theory: that a careful look through a telescope revealed that intelligent life exists on Mars. Skeptics cried not enough ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footag.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

THE waters off the glittering coastlines of Britain's Caribbean territories have long been a mystery. But now scientists on the first expedition beyond the ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.