The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a new theory is shifting the focus—what if life elsewhere in the universe ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

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Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

What if alien life on other planets didn’t need liquid water to exist? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Water may not be essential to support life, and an entirely different type of liquid could do the same in alien worlds, a new study claims. Until now, water has been considered a requirement for life ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

And, while we have no solid evidence of life outside our own planet—despite a large number of unexplained "UFO"-type observations —the sheer size of the known universe, and our knowledge of how ...