In the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the spacecraft’s resident mushroom expert, astromycologist Lieutenant Paul Stamets, casually references a bizarre-sounding theory as he argues to Michael ...

Panspermia suggests life can travel between worlds, but new research highlights a darker implication: contamination works ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Scientists put dried bacteria on the International Space Station (ISS) for three ...

The Earth is beaming with life and yet there is no consensus on how life arose or what life is. The origin of life is "one of the great unsolved mysteries of science" (Crick, F. Life Itself). While ...

Artist's impression of the ISO 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, detected on October 19th, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS survey. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser On October 19, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some of the first spacecraft that humanity sends to other solar systems may carry microscopic ...

People who search for aliens on Earth are likely thinking of little green men and flying saucers in the sky, but what if they should be looking at tentacles in the sea? A recent paper claims that ...

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