Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...
Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...
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 ...
A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...
Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help ...
Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.
Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.
Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...
Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inq ...