The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

How did life begin? A team of scientists from Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and Germany believes the answer may involve sticky gels that coated ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity ...

Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Perched on a knife-edge peak in Washington State, this fire lookout cabin defied logic and gravity. Built in the 1930s, it was used for only four years before being abandoned for unclear reasons. The ...

NASA faces backlash after a physicist claims Moon images are blurred to hide artificial alien structures, sparking fierce ...

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Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space ...

By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien life.