During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

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To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

NASA’s Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...

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NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...