Water may not be essential to support life, and an entirely different type of liquid could do the same in alien worlds, a new study claims. Until now, water has been considered a requirement for life ...

According to 404 Media, a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society detailed how scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests alien life could be going undetected because scientists focus more on avoiding false discoveries than missing ...

For centuries, humanity has wondered whether we are truly alone in the universe — and now, NASA’s top official believes the ...

FEW discoveries could be bigger than detecting life on another planet. Whether it is a rocky ball or a giant cloud of gas, hot, cold, or somewhere in between, we aren’t picky: so long as a world has ...

Three new books bring us up to speed on extraterrestrial life, its prospects and possible forms – but it remains “queerer than we can suppose” THERE are some 100 billion galaxies in the observable ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

Sugar has been discovered in space and it could change the search for alien life - Erythrulose is found on Earth in ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

(RNS) — Roughly a third of the way into Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film “Disclosure Day,” which focuses on the theoretical release of evidence documenting the existence of alien life, a ...