In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

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The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters directly. A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon ...

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Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...