A new Nature Astronomy study warns that space missions are fixated on avoiding false alarms and may be quietly discarding ...

Scientists say amino acids produced by life are distributed differently and more diversely than amino acids produced by ...

Memphis audiences this week will have two opportunities to hear and see Kate Tayler Hunt and her theremin in action.

A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter ...

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

The xenomorph from the Alien franchise is one of the most legendary creatures in cinema history. Now it's the star of FX's series Alien: Earth too. Many filmmakers have put xenomorphs on screen and ...

Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.

The exoplanet is gravitationally gripped in a speedy, 11-hour orbit around a red dwarf star that's less than one-fifth the ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

The Department of War just dumped a huge batch of UFO files, but does it have proof of aliens? Here's what we make of it.

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A surprising twist has emerged in the study of astrobiology: researchers recently suggested a new way of looking for alien ...