A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to explore outer space in the latter ...

A machine learning framework can distinguish molecules made by biological processes from those formed through non-biological processes and could be used to analyze samples returned by current and ...

What the heck is "Pluribus" even supposed to be? We're not referring to the literal title, which is rather quickly explained in the first half of the premiere. Instead, the Apple TV series from ...

The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more ...

Gabriela Radulescu has received funding from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025), from the American Institute of Physics for a Grant-in-Aid, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriela Radulescu, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As humans began to ...