Astrobiology

Scientists believe that Europa is a prime candidate for life as a result of a liquid water ocean under its icy shell, but that ocean...

This animated explanation of the Fermi Paradox asks, "Where are all the aliens?"

Scientists believed Enceladus had geysers that emitted "jets," but new research indicates that they may be giant walls of vapor and...

NASA is commencing a new interdisciplinary program specifically intended to find life on other worlds.

Scientists just found the first evidence that liquid water can be found on Mars during the spring and winter months.

NASA scientists are feeling more confident than ever that humanity will discover alien life within a generation.

Scientists discover that, in addition to Mars's polar ice caps, the Red Planet also has glaciers of frozen water at its central...

Astronomers have detected mysterious radio bursts that follow an unusual pattern, so unusual that they're considering an "artificial...

Scientists at Cornell University are creating a database of Earth microbes to help find and identify alien life forms.

NASA's Curiosity rover may have just found fatty acids on Mars, although they can't be sure that it has a biological origin yet.

A statistical analysis of 151 planetary systems in the Milky Way showed that our galaxy may contain billions of exoplanets in their...

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy was often called "the ultimate in future history" when it was published in the 1990's, as a...

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...