Category: Planets

Nasa is preparing to make a huge announcement about the hunt for alien life. It is holding a briefing at 6pm British time on Thursday to reveal the …

When you think of a planet that could be crawling with aliens, you and hundreds of scientists probably imagine an Earth-ish terrestrial planet with …

With all the debate about life on Mars, where to possibly find it and whether it even exists, it seems we almost forgot what the watery world beneath …

The pace in which scientists are discovering potentially habitable planets in our cosmic neighbourhood is soaring. When Pluto was discovered in 1930 …

Tiny organisms living below the surface of Mars could potentially survive for millions of years, scientists have suggested, potentially offering hope …

Life could have had millions of years to brew inside the moon. We first spotted them 12 years ago. Jets of water vapour shooting into space through …

Life could have had millions of years to brew inside the moon. We first spotted them 12 years ago. Jets of water vapour shooting into space through …

The search for extraterrestrial life is one of our most enduring mysteries, but how do we know the aliens we find will be anything like us? With …

Welcome to Mars Scientific City. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled plans to build a £100m ‘Martian City’ right here on Earth in the Emirati …

Work on a joint US-Russia space station orbiting the Moon is to begin in the mid 2020s. The base is intended to serve as a launching point for manned …

Are We Alone? As humans have ventured further from our home planet, we have sought other living organisms, proof that we’re not alone. We, of course, …

From blob-like jellyfish to rock-like lichens, our planet teems with such diversity of life that it is difficult to recognize some organisms as even being alive. That complexity hints at the challenge of searching for life as we don’t know it – the alien biology that might have taken hold on other …