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

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Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology sent to seed life on Earth, sparking a debate with sceptics who insist it is merely a comet.

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Will we discover alien life by 2075? A top scientist predicts we will. Learn about the search for life beyond Earth, from ...

The search for alien life has moved from planets to moons. This video dives into the hidden, globe-spanning oceans beneath the icy crusts of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. We ...

Explorers go to a planet that they believe holds clues to the origins of mankind. While the 2025 TV show ignores the Prometheus arc, it remains the oldest, non-AVP installment in the franchise. It ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

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