"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...
Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...
Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...
Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...
Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...
Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing ...
Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...
but seeing multiple planets at once is This June 2023 image provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute shows the planet Saturn and three of its moons, from left, Enceladus, Tethys and Dione, ...
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.