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

SETI has announced a major expansion in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence, now scanning distant galaxies for signs ...

So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b, raising new excitement about the possibility of life beyond Earth. Scientists found traces of carbon-based ...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets.

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

If so, that has important effects for life throughout the universe. It suggests that life might have been likely to form ...

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

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.