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"Superhabitable" planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
Asteroid collisions aren't always bad.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Europa may be difficult to access. But if a recent study is correct, its subsurface ocean would be more accessible than previously thought.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
Thou shalt not conclude “aliens” from insufficient data. When it comes to what’s out there in this Universe, perhaps the only thing that’s greater than our cosmic ignorance is the […]
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
We assume that life is ubiquitous in the Universe. But what if it’s just us? When it comes to the question of extraterrestrial life, humans optimistically assume the Universe is prolific. […]
Past or present, if there’s ever been any life at all, it changes everything. “They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized […]