From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

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

In today’s video, I go back to save more abandoned aquarium fish from a pond people are known to release their fish at! So we attempted to catch out as many as we could to save them! But this time we ...

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

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

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

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 ...

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 ...