On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want to know why ...

Can desert lichen survive extreme UV radiation? Study shows it might hold clues to how life could exist on distant, high-radiation planets.

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists have turned to Earth-like ...

The UK’s VERVE mission to hunt for microbial life in Venus’s clouds could redefine the search for extraterrestrial life.

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...