Fresh water suitable for life flowed on the surface of the Red Planet four billion years ago, accord...

Life from Earth may have been carried to moons of Jupiter and Saturn on rocks that blasted off our p...

In a first, astronomers have found a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our Solar System with b...

British scientists claim to have found 'alien' organisms in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting that life...

Habitable environments could be less common in the universe than previously thought, say scientists,...

India's upcoming Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) seeks to reveal whether there is methane, considered a "...

A chemical ingredient key for life may have been more abundant on ancient Mars than on early Earth, ...

Europa - the sixth closest moon of Jupiter - is the most likely place in our Solar System beyond Ear...

Scientists have discovered that there are 60 billion potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way ...