Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

Top Astronomers Just Revealed the Most Convincing Proof of Alien Life Until Today ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

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

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.

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 ...

New research from ETH Zurich challenges the long-held “follow the water” rule in the search for extraterrestrial life.

A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with exactly the right amount of oxygen in its mix.