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 ...

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

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

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

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

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

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

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

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 ...