If you believe humans are bound to discover extra-terrestrial life, you probably fall into one of two broad camps. Either you ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Barbara Ehrenreich was inspired to write her classic expose of low-wage life in America by punitive 1990s welfare laws. Today ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.

Located just 35 light-years away, this world is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth. But don’t call it a twin. It’s a scorching, pungent orb wrapped in an atmosphere of hydrogen and sulfur, perched ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended ...

EXCLUSIVE: NASA's chief medical officer has exclusively told the Daily Star that he believes there is 'a risk' of Mars based ...

DC Comics have some severely overpowered villains that have to be nerfed just so the heroes have a chance to win.

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real–life extraterrestrials might take a far less glamorous means of transport. When an asteroid slams into a ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...