For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

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

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

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

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure ...

Explorers go to a planet that they believe holds clues to the origins of mankind. While the 2025 TV show ignores the Prometheus arc, it remains the oldest, non-AVP installment in the franchise. It ...

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