Recent research has raised the tantalizing prospect that our Solar System, in which we thought we were alone, may be dotted ...
Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth's scalding and uninhabitable ...
Scientists speak out about reports Nasa telescope found signs of alien life - Better understanding should come later this ...
Scientists have broken their silence on a recent report that a NASA telescope found signs of alien life. Last September, ...
Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...
Despite its extreme conditions, featuring surface temperatures that can melt lead, volcanoes that spew lava, and thick clouds ...
If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing, but the hunt for extraterrestrial life can now include purple bacteria, according to a group of astronomers who are ...
Purple bacteria that thrive in low-energy red or infrared light with a simpler method of photosynthesis could cover another ...
If one day scientists discover evidence of extraterrestrial life, how will they tell the world? How certain will they be of their discovery, and how will the public know what sense to make of it?
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-sized rocky planet. Knowing of no way that ...