Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Do aliens exist? Few debates have proved as enduring – or as divisive – as the question of whether there is life beyond Earth ...

Source: Dr Sam Robinson Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

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

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.