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Learn why a lichen found in the Mojave Desert has become key evidence in the search for extraterrestrial life.

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"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

What if the key to finding alien life isn’t in the stars—but in Earth’s strangest creatures? Scientists have developed a ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

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.