Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Scientists in Brazil have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown impact event recorded in hundreds of glassy fragments ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

American air force accused of sharing fake news around extraterrestrial activity to divert attention from its ‘nefarious ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

Past classified reviews looking for alien life have found stranger things about life in Washington.

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that ...

DONALD Trump’s bombshell call to unseal the government’s top secret alien files will be “the biggest story of all time”, according to a former Ministry of Defence chief.