alien life

Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under…

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus –…

Simulations of more than 140,000 possible planetary systems show that pairs of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn may make…

When meteorites land on Earth, microbes soon begin colonising them. If Mars once had life, microbes might have colonised meteorites…

By Jonathan O’Callaghan The icy shell of Europa may hold pockets of liquid water where life could survive NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute…

All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same building blocks, meaning that planets with … [+]…

By Karina Shah Earth will one day look very different Alexandr Yurtchenko / Alamy One billion years from now, Earth’s…