Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Fresh “complex organic molecules” have been spotted coming out of a nearby moon that scientists believe could be home to alien life. On Earth, the same molecules are part of the chemical reactions ...

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

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

As you're reading this, humanity is closer than it has ever been to confirming the existence of life in various forms on other planets. And I'm not talking here about Mars, the most likely suspect to ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

Because Titan is tidally locked, the same side of the moon faces Saturn all the time, just like our own moon and Earth.

A small icy moon orbiting Saturn is a likely candidate to host outer space life, as a major space organisation is targeting ...