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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

The sci-fi book series about a cranky Everyman who ends up in the galaxy's deadliest reality game show has sold 6 million ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

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

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...