Today, Earth's moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of liquid water, or a magnetic field to protect its surface from solar wind ...

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, could harbour alien life deep within its underground oceans, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Although the moon may appear barren, near the South Pole, tiny ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, reaches its closest approach to Earth on Dec 19 at about 167 million miles - visible only with a strong telescope. Newsround speaks to an astrophysicist to ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, offering scientists a rare ...

While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can turn lunar minerals into haematite, also known as rust 1. The discovery adds ...

At their core, most of the Alien movies are about corporate greed. The lengths a company, mainly Weyland-Yutani, will go to harness and exploit a power from the deepest reaches of space. Whether that ...

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...