Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is considered one of the most promising places to search for alien life, thanks to its subsurface ocean hidden beneath a thick ice crust. While the pressure at the ...

We have long had a basic interest in knowing if there is life beyond our planet and how that life would function. It’s ...

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

UMass Amherst microbiologist James Holden brings decades of expertise in rare microbes to a NASA mission searching for life ...

NASA has tasked a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist who studies extremophiles with figuring out what aliens probably look like.

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most ...

Teledyne Brown Engineering helped implement the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS) project aboard the ISS.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our ...