The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

The ocean inside Enceladus is likely to be strongly layered in a way that may prevent evidence of life from rising from its ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

All this happened during a talk on 'The Search for Extraterrestrial Life'. Socas stressed that "we should feel lucky" for the times we live in and all the advances we are seeing. He points out ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

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

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...