Using an array of powerful radio telescopes high in the desert mountains of northern Chile, astronomers have confirmed the first discovery of alien exomoons. In our own solar system, there are over ...

Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986 on its never-ending journey out into the depths of space - beaming back to Earth the only up-close images we have of the ice giant and its moons.

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

The search for alien life has moved from planets to moons. This video dives into the hidden, globe-spanning oceans beneath ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

Recent research has uncovered a surprising twist in the search for extraterrestrial life: cosmic rays, typically seen as hazardous to life, may actually support alien life on cold, dark moons in our ...

In the new movie Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.

This image shows red streaks across the surface of Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four large moons (NASA/JPL/Galileo) Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox ...

That's not the only place that life may be hiding either A “SWARM” of tiny robot fish could hunt for alien life in hidden oceans on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Nasa has revealed future-gazing ...

NASA scientists are using a supercomputer to aid in the hunt for moons outside of the solar system that might play host to alien life. The search for alien life doesn't end within the boundaries of ...

Scientists looking for alien life have a big advantage, according to a new study. They can now find traces of extraterrestrials in individual grains of ice ejected into space. The researchers focused ...

A “SWARM” of tiny robot fish could hunt for alien life in hidden oceans on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Nasa has revealed future-gazing footage of its prototype SWIM bots – built to brave ...