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 ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Werner Herzog does not believe aliens have visited Earth, but he does think other life forms exist in the universe. He also believes his poetry will outlive his films.

Alien: Earth premiered on FX last year, and lead star Sydney Chandler has now revealed when Season 2 begins shooting in ...

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 ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

The planet Vulcan is no longer called Vulcan in the far-flung future of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, but some characters are still adjusting to the change.

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Alien: Earth Season 2 just received a massive update as Sydney Chandler, who plays Wendy, addressed it at the Texas Film Awards presser.

They had larger heads, larger eyes,” she said, describing one alien group. At the 24th annual Conscious Life Expo, which ...