From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Forget the grainy footage of 'flying saucers' or the campy sci-fi tropes of little green men from Mars; the search for ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...