The idea of dinosaurs roaming alien planets is compelling, but science paints a more cautious picture. No direct evidence of extraterrestrial life has ever been found. Even Mars, the most promising ...

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

The sci-fi book series about a cranky Everyman who ends up in the galaxy's deadliest reality game show has sold 6 million ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

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

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

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

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

A ‘completely insane’ science fiction disaster film featuring leading Hollywood stars may have been panned by critics but ...

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