From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Will we discover alien life by 2075? A top scientist predicts we will. Learn about the search for life beyond Earth, from ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

A new analysis of Saturn's moon Titan that reduced the odds of a subsurface liquid ocean has increased the chances of ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

It was an ordinary Tuesday morning when I borrowed my husband’s laptop. Mine wasn’t working and, needing to print something, I opened his. At that very moment, a notification pinged in the corner of ...

STORY. HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO HE IS. HE KNOWS WHO HE HAS BEEN TOLD HE IS. HE’S BEEN TOLD HIS NAME IS DARRYL POWELL. DARRYL GREW UP IN MIDDLETOWN AND HE WAS IN THE CLASS OF 1995 FROM MIDDLETOWN AREA HIGH ...

A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...