Although the movie’s participants refuse to disclose classified information, some of their statements elicited “audible gasps ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

For over 100 years, scientists have been hell-bent on talking to aliens, and new technology could give that hunt a boost.

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, water worlds have become the focus of research. Now there is a recommendation on ...

and could use their findings as evidence of extraterrestrial activity. However, a few major challenges stand in the way of this strategy. For one, it is immensely time-consuming and expensive to ...