For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

Life on Earth can be found in the strangest of places, from tens of thousands of metres in the sea to a bubbling tar pit in Trinidad. But scientists have suggested that life – alien life – could be ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...

Phosphates have been found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, in a new breakthrough discovery that boosts hopes for finding alien life in our solar system. It is the first time phosphorus has been found in ...

Scientists have long believed Saturn’s moon Titan hid a massive underground ocean, but new research suggests something even stranger: a deep, icy slush filled with pockets of warm liquid water that ...

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan may instead hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life ...

By Dean Murray Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it ...