The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

NASA just made a discovery that could change everything: an underground ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. With the potential ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Two men have been sentenced for their roles in the deaths of 53 migrants being smuggled inside a tractor trailer in southwest ...

Abiola v. Abubakar exemplifies how the quest for justice can transcend national borders when domestic remedies are ...

Sometimes the key to making a breakthrough in research, in any field, is to look at the problem differently than anybody has ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...