“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.
About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...
SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...
Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.
Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...
The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...
They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...
One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ultimately forming protocells—primitive, non-living structures that were ...