Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby ...

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a robot looking for microbes, it would be easier and cheaper to make the ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so much we can do on Earth that will give us massive insights,” Nadeau says. And ...

Scientists investigated microbial movement as a potential biosignature for detecting life on Mars and beyond, offering a ...

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The search for extraterrestrial life extends beyond Mars to include moons like Europa and Enceladus, which might harbor life-sustaining conditions. Discoveries such as extremophiles on Earth, capable ...

Aside from Earth, astronomers have found water in several places throughout the solar system, including scattered above and below the surface of Mars, inside the ice ... of galaxy evolution and ...

Scientists suggest alien life may be microscopic, surviving in extreme environments like toxic clouds, icy moons, or even ...

Scientists have identified regions on Mars where conditions might support ... Astrobiologists are redefining the search for extraterrestrial life, focusing on evolution and complexity in physical ...