“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

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 ...

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 ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...