Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary scientific field that seeks to understand the potential for life beyond Earth. It ...

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

"This movement, known as chemotaxis, could be a strong indicator of life and could guide future space missions looking for living organisms on Mars or other planets." "Especially, the usage of H.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond ... extraterrestrials could be lurking deep in the oceans on other worlds - like Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus. Ames and his team ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the ... I’m now very enthusiastic to hear what other scientists can tell us about ...