Project Hail Mary ," the movie adaptation to Andy Weir's 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes ...

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

The headlines said we might have found alien life — but the reality is far more complicated. Scientists detected a possible biosignature on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet 124 light-years away, but the ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond our planet.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict ...

New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life ...

Anthropic released its latest findings about the "labor market impacts of AI," listing the occupations that are "most exposed." ...