But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms floating in layers in water. Here on Earth, we have carbon-based life forms, ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a new theory is shifting the focus—what if life elsewhere in the universe ...

Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have long thought that water is one of the key indicators. But a group of experts now says that looking for life on water–rich planets could be a waste of time ...

New research from ETH Zurich challenges the long-held “follow the water” rule in the search for extraterrestrial life. Scientists argue that a planet’s habitability depends on a narrow chemical ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

The question of extraterrestrial life has resurfaced in public discourse after former U.S. President Barack Obama commented ...