Hunters of alien life may have a new and unsuspected niche to scout out. A recent paper submitted by Associate…
A new study suggests that the number of habitable exoplanets within the Milky Way alone may reach 60 billion. Previous…
Bacteria. They're so resilient that they can survive just about anywhere on Earth, even in spots of extreme hot or…
Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific…
Although scientists have been listening for years to search for indications of other sentient life in the Universe, just a…
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…
Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune's largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s…
[/caption] The United States Rocket Academy has announced an open call for entries in its High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge, a…
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…