Tag: alien life

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We're not quite there.

An equation that tries to dispel one of life's greatest mysteries.

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

Aliens may very well be out there somewhere -- but in many cases, what people are seeing are just lights ...

A newly discovered transiting exoplanet close to the solar system could be a prime target for atmospheric investigations, including the ...

When both aliens and humans are looking for each other, the chances are we'll make contact.

The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.

A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.

Did a wet Mars foster life? That's the big question scientists hope to answer in the future.

A Congress-mandated committee recommends that finding alien life becomes a priority for most NASA missions.

The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.

Probably the most interesting you're going to read today.

"Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus," he said.

If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.

Natural selection fosters certain qualities so aliens shouldn't look extremely different from humans.

Findings alien life on barren planet like Mars seems unlikely, but the discovery of the century might that of past ...

An innovative technology could drastically up our chances of finding alien life inside the solar system.

We might be too early for the party. Darn!

If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you'd be ...

A few years ago, the Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery: there are geysers erupting on Saturn's moon Enceladus, spewing ...

NASA is preparing for a historical approach to Enceladus, plunging its Cassini spacecraft deep through the icy spray coming from ...

Although we've yet to discover life forms on any other planet, astronomers are confident that not only we'll be able ...

This week space fanatics were teeming with excitement after it was announced that Stephen Hawking had teamed up with Russian ...

When it comes to alien life, we've had our hopes crushed time and time again. As the Moon was being ...

Dr. Milton Wainwright is trying to convince the world that the found alien life floating some 25 miles in our ...

The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than ...

An experiment fortuitously called DARE (DNA atmospheric re-entry experiment) has come to a most unexpected conclusion: DNA can indeed survive full ...

Topographical map of a Martian region showing impact craters. Photo: Antoine Lucas/NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona The Red Planet is dear to many ...

Astronomers have recently discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, using a novel technique - ...

We've written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of Jupiter's moon, the icy Europa. The moon is believed to ...

Hot-Jupiter exoplanet illustration. (c) NASA Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers have identified faint signals of water in the atmosphere of ...

Last year, we reported on this incredible study from NASA scientists, where the possibility of a vast ocean of water beneath the ...

The hunt for the second Earth, a similar life-bearing paradise like our own, rages on, and while no candidate came ...

Carl Sagan must be twisting and twitching in his grave. SETI, the project which became synonymus with searching for extraterrestrial ...

As I was telling you before, NASA got everybody hyped when they announced a big conference on the topic of ...

NASA has excited pretty much everybody's mind when they announced a press conference for today on the topic of extraterrestrial ...

A recently discovered planet is just about the right size and is in the right place to host life; as ...