What would happen if we finally confirmed alien life exists? The alien inquiry explores the scientific search for extraterrestrial organisms and intelligent civilizations. From distant planets to ...

Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

A computer expert pulled off the 'biggest military computer hack of all time,' breaching NASA's system to find what he said ...

By 2032, my company plans to turn lunar getaways from the stuff of sci-fi to reality ...

Avi Loeb, who challenged scientists on the true origin of 3I/ATLAS, reckons alien life form will make contact with us soon ...

People recently spotted a bizarre triangular tower inside the secretive Area 51 military base through satellite imagery on Google Maps. This unusual structure stands out in the Nevada desert landscape ...