The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

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

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

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...

A team of researchers has discovered a field of tektites in Brazil, providing evidence of a powerful meteorite impact that ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual ...

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