Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.

Just as space aliens might benefit from a society rooted in Jewish ideals, so too might humans benefit from the encounter ...

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering ...