New research from ETH Zurich reveals that beyond water and oxygen, phosphorus and nitrogen are critical for life's existence ...

Top Astronomers Just Revealed the Most Convincing Proof of Alien Life Until Today ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

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 ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...