An extrasolar world 500 light years away could be the most promising place yet to look for alien life.
Scientists have determined that Saturn's icy moon has 'all of the basic requirements for life as we know it'.
Researchers at Oxford University maintain that we are probably the only intelligent life forms in the universe.
Scientists have revealed that the building blocks of life are far more common on Ceres than previously believed.
NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars.
Children born to parents living in a colony on Mars will be the very definition of the word 'Martian'.
A new theory has put forward the possibility that killer robots have wiped out all intelligent alien life.
A recent study aimed to find out how marine park dolphins actually felt about their life in captivity.
A woman thought to be the world's oldest living human has referred to her extremely long life as a 'punishment'.
Decades-old data from the Galileo spacecraft has all-but confirmed the presence of geysers on Jupiter's icy moon.
A new study has suggested that the multiverse may be a lot more hospitable to life than previously thought.
ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter has started its mission to seek out traces of biologically-produced methane on Mars.
The ambitious BioGenome Project aims to sequence and store the genomes of more than 1.5 million species.
Could there have been an advanced civilization on our planet long before mankind appeared on the scene ?
A wildlife photographer recently captured the moment a whale's blowhole spray produced a spectacular rainbow.
The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter will be starting its mission within the next two weeks.
The 53-year-old was resuscitated despite lying lifeless outside with no heartbeat for the better part of a day.
A lack of phosphorus in the universe could mean that Earth-type life is a lot rarer than commonly thought.
A new paper has put forward the suggestion that the clouds of Venus could be a habitat for microbial life.
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.