A METEORITE that smashed though a roof and into a New Jersey bedroom may contain the chemical blueprints of alien life.

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth. When you purchase ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system in the last decade, but figuring out whether any of them support life is much harder. The reason is that our telescopes don’t have ...

NASA's hunt for alien life may be undermined by its own instruments, according to a group of leading astrobiologists who warn that current tools and mission designs are likely missing subtle, but ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...