Finding certain complex molecules in large quantities on another world could be a sign of life. Living things build complicated molecules in bulk, and chemistry without life mostly doesn’t.

A Halloween display at 10427 41st Ave SW in Arbor Heights gives a front yard an extraterrestrial crash-site theme, with a ...

These futuristic reactors may offer advantages that are “entirely infeasible” for their terrestrial counterparts.

In 2023, Maussan presented two ‘non-human’ mummies reportedly found in Peru to the Mexican Congress, claiming they were proof of alien life. Forensic experts concluded they were dolls assembled from ...

The loneliness of being "all alone in space" was something I felt was lacking in 'The Martian'.This work depicts that ...

A rare form of the organic alcohol methanol is present around at least one of the very young stars still embedded within it.

Stone samples collected by NASA explorers contain remarkable chemical signs, possibly related to ancient life on ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Osaka in Japan has developed a new electrical method for ...

Some of the most intriguing clues may already be sitting in scientific data. The difficult part is knowing when an unusual ...

But a paper published in Nature Astronomy shows that most scientists agree they're probably out there, somewhere. This research involved four surveys, all sent out to scientists like astrobiologists ...

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A new study proposes searching the moon for remnants of ancient extraterrestrial technology. Researchers suggest the moon's surface could preserve microscopic "technosignatures" left by alien ...