The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...

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A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Start your morning with The National News Desk as Jan Jeffcoat sits down with an angel mom who attended the State of the Union address, Sandy Snodgrass.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Sci-fi is an enduring genre on the small screen, even if the budgets couldn't always match the big screen, and these are the ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

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Green Bank Telescope rules out alien signals in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after rigorous scientific deep search.

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Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...