The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA just made a discovery that could change everything: an underground ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. With the potential ...

THE son of a NASA scientist who was convinced he found aliens on Mars is begging the space agency to search again. American engineer Gilbert Levin was convinced until he died aged 97 that he had ma… ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...