Scientific interest in extraterrestrial life has grown in the past 20 years. The field of astrobiology now includes researchers from a wide variety of disciplines — microbiologists studying bacteria ...

Dr. Michio Kaku analyzed stunning new images of galaxies from NASA's James Webb Space Webb Telescope on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Tuesday, arguing it's a "little bit presumptuous" for humans to think ...

Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets’ respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life ...

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot ...

Biosignature probability maps from CNN models and statistical ecology data. The colors in a) indicate the probability of biosignature detection. In b) a visible image of a gypsum dome geologic feature ...

Human beings have long looked to the stars and hoped that alien life might look back at us. Yet the truth is that the first extraterrestrial life we discover is far more likely to be microbial — a ...

Science fiction crawls with intelligent BEMs (bug-eyed monsters) and humanoids (manlike creatures) that live on planets revolving about distant stars. Most fact-fancying scientists are far more ...

A mysterious and pre-teased NASA conference from the Perseverance team has gone live and announced their findings: the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Earlier this week, NASA ...