Imagine being abducted by aliens in the middle of the night, beaming up into the strange monochromatic interiors of a colossal spaceship. You’re placed on a bench within a spherical pod, fearing the ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Colonies growing on petri dishes, plants bolting from pots, stem cells splitting — while many University researchers are focused on the samples available in their labs, one is interested in exploring ...

When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life. Six ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing themselves — and its key ingredient is a common amino acid that’s found in ...