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

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

When we turn to "complex" extraterrestrial life or "intelligent" aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists. So ...

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NASA is preparing to launch its exoplanet telescope Pandora and it got a step closer on Monday. In a statement, the agency announced that it has chosen Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the telescope that ...

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

Chemical traces and microbes could break down or transform as they rise, making them unrecognizable by the time they reach ...