Scientific interest in extraterrestrial life has grown in the past 20 years. The field of astrobiology now includes researchers from a wide variety of disciplines — microbiologists studying bacteria ...

Dr. Michio Kaku analyzed stunning new images of galaxies from NASA's James Webb Space Webb Telescope on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Tuesday, arguing it's a "little bit presumptuous" for humans to think ...

Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets’ respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life ...

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot ...

Biosignature probability maps from CNN models and statistical ecology data. The colors in a) indicate the probability of biosignature detection. In b) a visible image of a gypsum dome geologic feature ...

ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker theorises about the existence of complex and intelligent life and the statistical probability that such species exist or have existed in the past, ...

Science fiction crawls with intelligent BEMs (bug-eyed monsters) and humanoids (manlike creatures) that live on planets revolving about distant stars. Most fact-fancying scientists are far more ...

Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you might expect that the ...