A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

The tallest cliff in the solar system is so extreme that even imagining standing on its edge is enough to make your stomach ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

It's not nearly as easy as one might think. The post If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Bill Maher is worried about what extraterrestrial visitors would think of humanity if the first person they encountered from Earth was President Donald Trump. Speaking on his Club Random podcast, the ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...