If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help understand where to look for it.

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Most people believe in life on other planets, a newly released study that canvassed respondents around the world claims. After surveying 26,492 people in 24 countries, research firm Motivaction found ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...