Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

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

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

His book Chariots of the Gods?, which theorised that advanced aliens had repeatedly visited Earth, sold millions of copies.

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...