Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

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The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

What started as a quiet rivalry between two billionaire space dreamers has turned into one of the ugliest feuds in tech. Elon ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

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In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...