The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

The ocean inside Enceladus is likely to be strongly layered in a way that may prevent evidence of life from rising from its ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?