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

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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 ...

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Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a leading British space expert, has made the extraordinary claim that humanity will discover life off the Earth by the year 2075. She is convinced our civilisation will ...

Amirali Aghazadeh receives funding from Georgia Tech. When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.