Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth's scalding and uninhabitable ...
Recent research has raised the tantalizing prospect that our Solar System, in which we thought we were alone, may be dotted ...
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, ...
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our ...
Suddenly, everyone is talking about aliens. After decades on the cultural margins, the question of life in the Universe beyond Earth is having its day in the sun. The next big multibillion-dollar ...
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 ...
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 ...
Purple bacteria that thrive in low-energy red or infrared light with a simpler method of photosynthesis could cover another ...
A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the ...