Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

A review of Cloudy With A Chance of Starships by Seven Rasmussen and a Q&A in which the the author talks about the search for ...

Finding alien life could shake some people to their very souls, but different religions can take very distinct approaches to ...

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

In the late 1950s, a small group of scientists began to search for alien life. Among them was geneticist Joshua Lederberg at Stanford, who in 1960 spoke at the First International Space Science ...

The Artemis II crew is on its way to the moon as you read this – but scientists say if they’re hunting for aliens, they’re trying the wrong moon. Extraterrestrial life may be hiding on the moons of ...

Are we alone in the universe? While the search for life beyond Earth has so far turned up empty, the infamous question continues to haunt humanity’s exploration of the vast cosmos. Now, NASA’s ...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden biosignatures, limitations in detection technology, and assumptions about ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) The search for life on another planet is one of the most exciting things in astrophysics. As humanity has searched the universe for signs of life, we’ve found a surprising ...