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

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

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Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...