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

When we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The Harry Vanderspeigle’s (Alan Tudyk) of the universe are basically human with ...

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

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Beneath Triton's frozen crust of nitrogen ice, scientists believe a vast subsurface ocean could be hiding and with it, the ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

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 ...

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Saturn’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...