Here are several Star Wars games that allow people to visit planets and space stations in ways that the live-action films ...

Experts have identified a hidden chemical fingerprint that may help in the decades long search for alien life in the deepest regions of the cosmos.

Overlooking signs of alien life may be humanity’s biggest mistake, according to scientists warning NASA could miss hidden ...

Astrobiologists warn that NASA's current instruments may miss subtle signs of alien life, risking 'false negatives' in the ...

Astronomers estimate there are 10 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, increasing the statistical likelihood of ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

This search for alien intelligence goes far beyond looking for tiny microbes, focusing instead on the possibility of advanced ...

Picture a world where ice does not melt, even while the ground glows with temperatures hotter than molten metal. Far beyond ...

Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in ancient oceans. By tracing genes across life, researchers now argue those organisms ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...