Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Astrobiologists warn that NASA's current instruments may miss subtle signs of alien life, risking 'false negatives' in the ...

Memphis audiences this week will have two opportunities to hear and see Kate Tayler Hunt and her theremin in action.

Scientists have warned that current astrobiology missions risk encountering false-negative results, where signs of ...

The study warns that the search for alien life could be marred by the fear of 'false positives'.

For decades, astrobiology has been guided by one haunting question: Are we alone in the universe? The field’s mission is to test the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but the search is anything ...

Getting a clean bill of health from a medical scan doesn’t always mean you’re healthy – sometimes the scanner just missed it. The same problem applies to searching for life on other planets, and until ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.