Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

"Life is always hardier than we expect it to be." The post Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

The curious minds at What If imagine crashing on an alien planet far away, exploring survival, alien ecosystems, and the challenges of life on a distant world. Coast Guard reacts to swastika at New ...