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

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

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

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.

A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended from Martians. Astrobiologists have long speculated that ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

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 ...

Reserachers gathered experimental data exploring whether bacteria could survive a journey between planets via an asteroid ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...