NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

One is that life's building blocks were delivered on or in meteorites. The other is that those building blocks came together spontaneously via geochemistry in our planet's early environment.

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Scientists uncovered a "Lost City" deep underwater in the Atlantic Ocean that could prove the existence of extraterrestrial ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.

These extreme temperatures, among other factors, make life as we know it impossible on Mercury. "The extreme weather conditions do not allow for the planet to have liquid water, which is the basis ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

For Cody Stone, becoming the Executive Chef at Proof on Main was maybe meant to ... gives me joy looking back on those points in my life." Each course during Friday's dinner was expertly paired ...