A team of researchers have shown how the basic building blocks of life could have arose on a primordial Earth,…
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If we do discover that there are aliens orbiting other planets, will we know how to communicate with them? What…
Can we assume that aliens will evolve intelligence over the eons, and will this lead to other technological civilizations? Will…
Paul Patton begins a three-part series on the evolutionary biology of aliens. Will they follow the same direction as life…
We all know that we are "made of star-stuff," with all of the elements necessary for the formation of planets and even…
It's hard to believe it now looking at Mars' dusty, dessicated landscape that it once possessed a vast ocean. A…
In the movie "Avatar", we could tell at a glance that the alien moon Pandora was teeming with alien life.…
Astronomy is, by definition, intangible. Traditional laboratory-style experiments that utilize variables and control groups are of little use to the scientists who…