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

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten new viral claims that it is targeting the Sun with strange wobbling jets. We break ...

The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the third such visitor ever observed, is exhibiting unusual energy and chemical behavior as it ...

Mission to investigate whether tiny organisms live in ocean volcanoes on icy Enceladus planned by European Space Agency ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

From the start, the core vision was a buddy-action experience where you would control two distinct characters with a single ...

It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can "Star Trek" teach us anything about the economics of our own ...

Sitting in line behind half a dozen SUVs to gain entry to Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park, I spot a sign out of the corner ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...