If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

What would it mean for humans if there were another species out there, and how big is the challenge when the human species is just a speck among others in space? The bigger problems and challenges ...

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To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms ...

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...