Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them. What does that mean? In Nature ...

Unexplained sightings have appeared in our skies for years, and now the U.S. government has started releasing declassified ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

Thomas Mulligan highlights Mars, Europa, and Titan as the most promising locations within our solar system where scientists ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the scientific challenge of defining and searching for non-Earth-like alien life forms that may not rely on carbon, water, or DNA.

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

A new statistical method to identify extraterrestrial life by looking at the "biodiversity" of molecules rather than the ...

How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos," astrophysicist Emma Chapman describes the hidden corners of space ...

Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life have a problem: they can find the molecular fingerprints of biology everywhere ...