NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

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British filmmaker says he has been given 'rare access' to the Vatican's secret archives and that the Church is getting ready ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Evolution, the process of change, governs life on Earth − and potentially different forms of life in other places. Just_Super/E+ via Getty Images We have only one example of biology forming in the ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

When scientists search for extraterrestrial life, they invariably focus on the sixth element on the periodic table: Carbon. "I don't think even most humans have much self-awareness, let alone bacteria ...

Enceladus, a Saturn moon, has a subsurface ocean with key ingredients for life: liquid water, carbon compounds, and energy. Scientists found phosphate, essential for life, in ice grains from Enceladus ...

A commission would look for ways to establish a beneficial coexistence between humans and intelligent beings from other worlds. By Kirk Johnson Having trouble discovering extraterrestrial life? You ...

For decades, scientists have scoured the skies and planetary surfaces for evidence that life might exist beyond Earth. New ...