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

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

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

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

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

It’s one of humanity’s oldest and biggest questions: are we alone in the universe? According to one of Britain’s leading ...

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