Astrobiology

Europa has long been theorized to have a vast liquid ocean beneath its icy surface, and now a hypnotizing gif demonstrates just how...

There's a lot of talk about various moons throughout our solar system having the potential to support life. Europa and Enceladus have,...

Previous studies have already shown that Saturn's moon Enceladus is host to over 100 geysers, making it a plausible candidate for...

Astrobiologists have long been convinced that Mars was once host to water, and the theory that the northern part of the Red Planet was...

Liquid water has long been the holy grail in the search for extraterrestrial life, but recently, more and more astrobiologists are...

With the panspermia hypothesis of the origin of life on Earth gaining more and more traction recently, Princeton mathematician Edward...

Could there be planets that are more habitable than Earth in our own galaxy? According to Rene Heller, an astrophysicist at McMaster...

With NASA's game-changing announcement that they will send a probe to search for alien life on Europa, NASA's scientists are currently...

Did extraterrestrials deliberately seed the first life on Earth? Astrobiologists from the University of Buckingham have discovered a...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, liquid water is essentially the holy grail. Life can be found on Earth almost everywhere that...

Humanity has known of the existence of other planets orbiting our Sun for centuries, but the existence of planets outside our solar...

NASA has been predicting for some time that Jupiter's moon Europa contains alien life, but up to this point there were no official...

Life began on Earth 3.8 billion years ago, back when our Moon was covered in flowing lava. But where Earth has all but destroyed its...

Cold, arid asteroid Vesta was the last place anyone expected to find liquid water. And although the planet is not conducive to the...

2400 ft beneath the Antarctic Ice, a robotic adventurer makes the astonishing discovery that deep within that dark and incredibly cold...

The discovery of intelligent alien life would arguably be one of the most significant scientific developments of all time, and now...

A newly unveiled telescope in Chile may be revolutionary in discovering relatively small alien planets that are currently orbiting...

When searching for extraterrestrial life, the "holy grail," so to speak, has long been a planet with liquid water. But thus far, there...

The saga of our attempt to find life on Mars has gone on for many years, but there have been several new developments recently....

NASA's Kepler space telescope has just discovered three new Earth-like exoplanets, one of which is the closest analogue to Earth...