It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

Well, Europa (a moon of Jupiter) and Enceladus (a moon of Saturn) both have subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. Thes ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

The existence of alien life on planet K2-18b, located 124 light years away, is under scrutiny following recent claims of ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Efforts are underway to search for extraterrestrial life. Imagine how amped this search could be if we applied advanced AI ...