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 ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make this challenging ...

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

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 ...

Former NASA agent Joseph Gutheinz dismisses UFO sightings as alien visits, citing vast interstellar distances. He suggests these sightings are likely ...

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.

To that end, humankind’s search for extraterrestrial life, be it on the dusty red plains of Mars or on the distant K2-18b, has focused on finding evidence of microbes and, by extension ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Former NASA official Joseph Gutheinz dismisses the notion of alien visitors, urging people to focus on scientific evidence rather than speculation. He argues that vast astronomical distances and the ...