For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

Life on Earth can be found in the strangest of places, from tens of thousands of metres in the sea to a bubbling tar pit in Trinidad. But scientists have suggested that life – alien life – could be ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...