For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

Steven Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects in "Disclosure Day," but there are lot of things in the sci-fi ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

The title of Disclosure Day tells you everything you need to know. In Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, there’s never any question of whether extraterrestrial life exists (it does) or ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

The best explanation for this surprise, according to a team led by astronomer Julia Seidel of Côte d'Azur Observatory in ...

The story involves 23andMe, Ancestry.com, psychic spies, alleged extraterrestrial DNA, and somehow only gets stranger from there.

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

For many years, scientists searching for life beyond Earth have focused on one main question: what kinds of molecules should they look for on other planets? Molecules such as amino acids and fatty ...

The search for life beyond Earth has a new approach that relies more heavily on statistical patterns of molecules than on any one molecule's presence. Credit: NASA. For decades, scientists searching ...

What methods can scientists use to correctly identify biosignatures, aka signs of life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from the ...

Researchers hunting for life above Earth might have to simply know the organic molecules on faraway planets and moons. A new study in the journal Nature Astronomy demonstrates how the hidden ...