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

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

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 ...

Google Maps users have been left baffled by a strange 'sign' which they think might have been left by 'ancient alien visitors ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Proof of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone is a reminder that we're not as unique as we think we are, Loeb says. "The message from nature is, don't be presumptuous, you are not ...