In the late 1950s, a small group of scientists began to search for alien life. Among them was geneticist Joshua Lederberg at Stanford, who in 1960 spoke at the First International Space Science ...

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven’t We Found Alien Life in a Vast Universe? Look up at the night sky on a clear evening, and you’re staring at roughly 5,000 stars visible to the naked eye. Now consider ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Explore strange creatures, unusual ecosystems and the possibilities of life beyond Earth. Terrified kitten dodging highway traffic makes an incredible turnaround The aluminum German V8 sleeper that ...