The International Journal of Astrobiology is the peer-reviewed forum for practitioners in this exciting interdisciplinary field. Coverage includes cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary evolution ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of time’. If it hasn’t already, that is. Many astronomers say that ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Alien: Earth, the first small-screen installment in the iconic sci-fi horror franchise, is almost here. But, much like the Xenomorph was to Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley, the show is still a ...

The Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise is one of the coolest, most nefarious movie monsters ever hatched, with its acid blood, mouths-within-mouths, and diabolical claws. It pretty much ...