If life exists elsewhere, it might not be on worlds like Earth. Here are some of the more peculiar places scientists are ...

Humans have wondered about life beyond our planet since ancient times, and researchers have worked hard for decades to find ...

Best known for dissolving bodies in bathtubs, sulfuric acid has the potential to be the elixir of life on other worlds.

Everyone has probably looked up at the night sky and wondered, 'Is there someone out there somewhere in this universe?' It's ...

Cracks along a giant Martian volcano, possibly above a magma chamber, might be spewing magmatic gases into the atmosphere, ...

How would the crew of the Wild Blue Yonder fare on a real exoplanet?

For a long time, the field of searching for life has relied on a single checklist: oxygen, methane, amino acids, and lipids.

By modeling how a planet without life develops its atmosphere, astronomers hope to be able to better distinguish rocky ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

A breakthrough in telescope imaging could reveal countless alien worlds that have been hiding in plain sight. Scientists developed a new technique that uses a digital twin of the James Webb Space ...

Carl Sagan's famous butterfly quote from Cosmos reflects on the brevity of human life, mortality and our place in the vast ...