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

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

According to an official press release, Five Parsecs from Home: Planetfall is a co-op adventure game. Players take on the ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

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