Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

A new study suggests intelligence may be a natural outcome of planetary evolution, challenging old theories and raising the ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and likely others, according ...

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

Scientists have conducted a study to see the consensus of agreement amongst other scientists and astrobiologists and a ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

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

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

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...