Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger says the first things you notice when you enter her biology lab at Cornell ...

Evidence of alien life, she believes, is tantalisingly close. Kaltenegger is looking for “biosignatures” – telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of distant planets, the sort of gases that organic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alien: Earth should not be as good as it is. Over the decades, the classic 1979 film has spawned a sprawling ...

Crash landing anywhere is never a good time, let alone when it's on a thawing alien ice planet on the edge of the solar system. But that's exactly what happens in my introduction to Aphelion, the ...

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

Humanity has spent a lot of time looking for signs of extraterrestrial life, but less time has been spent pondering whether alien life could be looking for us – until now. Astronomers in New York have ...