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

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

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

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

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 ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Alien lifeforms living in oceans on other planets could remain hidden from spacecraft, suggests new research. Searching for ...

Two rare black wolves seen crossing stream in Polish forest ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...