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

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British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

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A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting ...

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

The liquid ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to be completely sealed off from the planet’s surface, which may reduce the ...

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

Samus Aran, the science fiction protagonist in the Metroid series, is arguably Nintendo’s most mysterious character. She ...