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 ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

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

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

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

The project aims to scan the night sky to search for an unmistakable "smoking gun" proving the existence of an extraterrestrial civilization.

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

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

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