From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Aliens?! Enchiladas?! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, what is coming to this world? Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, but it would be better described as a winter wonderland.

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

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In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

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