While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...

A doorway cut into a rock face in Peru that some speculate has links to extraterrestrial life remains a great mystery to ...

New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has long been regarded as one of the most promising places in our solar system for the potential ...

So far, no evidence has been found that life exists on other planets. If this does not change with better instruments, it will also be instructive. The search for extraterrestrial life is ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The Search Is Ongoing . Maybe alien civilizations watch us from afar, or perhaps only microbes gather in some distant world. Every new mission and space technology fuels the hunt, ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...