News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...

Finding them both would mean there must be constant replenishment. It would be grossly geocentric, however, to limit the search for extraterrestrial life to oxygen and methane. Life could take ...

Musk also expressed a vision for the future where humanity, possibly with the aid of Martians (or colonists on Mars), could ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Cobalt88/Getty The findings have important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. If Mars or other rocky planets ever had liquid water beneath their surfaces, the ecosystems there ...

But just in case there’s advanced alien life out there, I’m on the international advisory council for the group designing messages to send to those civilisations. Since the first discovery of ...

In this idea, alien life is indeed common, as is intelligence. There really is no huge barrier to intelligent creatures developing spaceflight capabilities and spreading themselves throughout the ...

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to the wonderful diversity of Men In Black’s extraterrestrial entourage ... But does that mean that life can only live there? Actually, it doesn’t, because if you freeze things over there ...