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Extraterrestrial life


18 hrs ago
Image shows a white rocket launching from the launchpad, with white smoke visible at the bottom and an orange fire

Moment Nasa spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life

It is set to arrive in 2030 - and what it finds could change what we know about life in our solar system.

18 hrs ago
US & Canada
2 days ago

Why alien planets may not have a day or night

Distinct days and nights have helped life flourish on Earth. But many alien worlds capable of supporting life may not have such clear delineations.

2 days ago
Future
12 Mar 2024
A "selfie" of Nasa's Perseverance rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars (Credit: Nasa/JPL)

Where we might find aliens in the next decade

Forget UFOs and alien abductions, here's how scientists are really looking for life on other worlds.

12 Mar 2024
Future
8 Mar 2024
The Pentagon

US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests

Researchers say they found "no evidence" that the US government had interactions with aliens.

8 Mar 2024
US & Canada
28 Oct 2023
A still from the film Arrival (Credit: Alamy)

What alien languages might sound like

Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of communicating, so how might humanity communicate with them if ever make contact?

28 Oct 2023
Future
27 Oct 2023

A cosmic hunt for alien trees

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them?

27 Oct 2023
Future
26 Oct 2023

Why aliens may be weirder than we think

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees.

26 Oct 2023
Future
25 Oct 2023
A view of the Moon orbiting the Earth taken from 3.9 million miles away by the Galileo spacecraft (Credit: Nasa/JSC)

Why aliens might know humans exist

Alien astronomers might be looking in our direction from distant planets. What would they see?

25 Oct 2023
Future
24 Oct 2023

Could we detect alien pollution?

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution.

24 Oct 2023
Future

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