If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

What would it mean for humans if there were another species out there, and how big is the challenge when the human species is just a speck among others in space? The bigger problems and challenges ...

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

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Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...