Our search for life beyond Earth is still in its infancy. We're focused on Mars and, to a lesser extent,…
Here's a thorny problem: What if life doesn't always appear on planets that can support it? What if we find…
A new analysis of meteorite samples has found the building blocks of life that have eluded scientists so far.
Researchers at Australia’s Curtin University have discovered evidence of a massive impact on the Martian surface after 4.45 billion years…
Can life spread throughout a galaxy like the Milky Way without technological intervention? That question is largely unanswered. A new…
A remarkable microbe named Deinococcus radiodurans (the name comes from the Greek deinos meaning terrible, kokkos meaning grain or berry,…
A new study by a team astrobiologists shows how certain types of extreme bacteria thrive on meteors, which could reveal…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale