From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

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Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...

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First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...