The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

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

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

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 ...

I was raised Presbyterian, and still think of myself that way, although I stopped going to church in high school. I feel a connection to the Presbyterian church, because it's how I grew up; the ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

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 ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...