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Space Exploration

Why are we looking for life as we know it, when it could take another form we’re not familiar with?

Life could arise in different ways as life adapts to suit its surroundings

Deep Space

Stephen Hawking: Why encountering intelligent alien life could be the end of humanity

In this video Professor Stephen Hawking explains why we should be wary of advanced extraterrestrial races

News

Venus-like exoplanet could have oxygen atmosphere

New research suggests that GJ 1132b’s atmosphere has a thin wispy atmosphere baked to a temperature of around 450 degrees Fahrenheit

News

Mars-like environment on Earth could provide clues in search for life

A team of astrobiologists descended below our planet’s surface looking for answers about life on other worlds

News

Exoplanet discoveries suggest we’re not the only advanced civilisation in the universe

As we find more alien worlds, it’s possible to work out whether any other advanced life has ever existed

News

Hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence begins around red dwarfs

The SETI Institute is on the look out for deliberately-produced radio signals around the dimmest stars in the universe

News

FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 47

Meet the NASA scientists planning to evacuate Earth and save the human race in the latest edition of All About Space – out now!

News

NASA develops ‘chemical laptop’ to look for alien life

A miniaturised laboratory that analyses samples for materials associated with life is being constructed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Space Exploration

SETI’s Seth Shostak: “We’ll find intelligent alien life within two dozen years”

The director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute tells us what would happen if a signal were to be found

News

FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 44

We shed new light on the mysterious dark matter in the latest issue of All About Space – out now!

News

FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 43

We have the complete guide to surviving the Red Planet (and the technology to help) in the latest issue of All About Space – out now!

News

Stephen Hawking announces new $100 million search for alien life

The hunt for intelligent life in the universe has just been given a brand new boost

News

Starmus 2014: “I’m betting my shirt that alien life is similar to life on Earth,” says Dawkins

At the Starmus astronomy festival in Tenerife, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins tells us what we should expect alien life to look like

Astronomy

Ten reasons why NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will kick some cosmic butt

Here are ten amazing facts about the JWST that you might not have known.

News

Living Earth-like planets could orbit dead stars, say experts

Could worlds brimming with life orbit the dead stars known as white dwarfs? A duo of theoretical scientists think it’s possible.

Astronomy

What would happen if SETI found an alien signal?

Is there a procedure to announce the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life?

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