NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set to explore one of the most intriguing moons in the solar system—Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ... Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also beckon as enticing ...

Join NASA’s search for alien life in the outer solar system as we explore the moons of gas and ice giants! From Europa’s hidden oceans to Titan’s mysterious chemistry, scientists believe ...