We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

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A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...

Barack Obama dismissed alien cover-up conspiracy theories, telling Stephen Colbert the government is terrible at keeping ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

The finding suggests complex metabolism emerged earlier than thought and may guide the search for alien life.

For centuries, stargazers of many kinds have debated the meaning of unidentified objects in the heavens and encounters with ...

NASA has found a hidden lake deep beneath Antarctica. The lake has a unique chemistry far more like Mars than Earth. What is ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time. If life spreads and changes planetary environments, it could leave behind ...