Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according ...

A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet K2-18b, most experts do not yet think alien life has probably been found.

The recent discovery of an enigmatic substance on the surfaces of both Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and Pluto, our solar ...

With a much-hyped but middling Spielberg offering, a better-than-expected rom-com and a stinker horror-comedy, it’s a truly mixed bag of movies this week.

Mimicking the chemistry of outer space to explain how planets form The laws of chemistry get pushed to the limits in Jenny Bergner’s astrochemistry lab at the University of California, Berkeley, where ...