NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

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

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists have conducted a study to see the consensus of agreement amongst other scientists and astrobiologists and a ...

Why haven’t we met biological aliens? If civilizations advance enough, they may ditch their biological limitations and become ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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