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Sep 10, 2021 · Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At NASA, astrobiologists like Lindsay Hays are trying to answer one of the most profound questions ever: Is there life beyond Earth?
Sep 29, 2023 · Pallab Ghosh. Science correspondent. ESA. Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons is the most likely place in our solar system to be home to alien life. Many astronomers are no longer asking whether...
Oct 28, 2023 · Seager believes we'd confirm the existence of alien life only with sample-return missions — collecting samples from another planet or moon and bringing them back to Earth for...
- Patrick Pester
- It’s a numbers game, and probability suggests aliens are out there.
- We already know of hundreds of potentially habitable planets. We are able to measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets using a technique called spectroscopy.
- We’ve found life on earth in places that we didn’t think life could possibly exist. When we’re contemplating the existence of life beyond our planet, it’s worth considering that we’ve discovered microbes inhabiting spaces on Earth where the idea of survival was previously inconceivable.
- The life that’s out there may not be intelligent life.
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently detected tantalising hints at life on a planet outside our Solar System - and it has many more worlds in its sights. Numerous missions that are...
This article is part of a week of special coverage about extraterrestrial life – all to mark the upcoming 60th Anniversary of the BBC's most famous alien lifeform, Doctor Who. But what if there...
Extraterrestrial life, or alien life (colloquially, aliens), is life which does not originate from Earth. No extraterrestrial life has yet been conclusively detected.
