472 Results From "extraterrestrial life"

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
Pollution

These Fake Liquid Trees Are Enraging the Internet

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.
Pollution

NASA Is Hunting Alien Civilizations by Looking for Their Pollution

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.
Mars

NASA Discovers Precious Gemstones on Mars

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Mars

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

Astrophysicist and Harvard professor Avi Loeb is convinced that a meteor that crashed into the ocean years ago may have been alien in origin.
Exobiology

Experts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean

In a strange new paper, one researcher calculates that there are four "malicious" alien civilizations in the Milky Way alone.
Exobiology

Study: There May Be as Many as Four Evil Civilizations in Our Galaxy

According to astronomers, the mysterious radio signal picked up back in December is extremely unlikely to have come from another advanced civilization.
Science & Energy

Sorry Folks: Signal From Nearest Star Not Alien Civilization, Scientists Say

A team of scientists scanning for signs of life say they've found "suspicious signals" that could point toward extraterrestrial civilizations.
Science & Energy

Chinese Scientists Say They May Have Detected Signal From Extraterrestrial Intelligence, But Probably Not

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.
Science & Energy

Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

Researchers discovered that a meteorite contained water just like Earth's, bolstering the theory that our planet got water from other meteorites like it.
Science & Energy

Evidence Grows That Soggy Meteorites Gave Earth Its Oceans

A team of researchers fired tardigrades, also known as water bears, out of a gun to see if they could survive in extreme conditions like outer space.
Off-World

Scientists Loaded Tiny Organisms Into a Gun and Shot Them At Targets

A scientist in the UK wants to build an old growth Earth forest in a bubble on surface of Mars, and honestly? He makes a good case.
Mars

Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars

According to a new study by scientists from NASA and the German Aerospace Center, some Earthling microbes could survive the hostile conditions on Mars.
Mars

Black Mold From Earth Could Survive on Mars, NASA Says

NASA scientists think that Jupiter's moon Europa might glow in the dark and that by measuring that glow they can detect what's hidden in its oceans.
Science & Energy

NASA Project Could Peer Inside Europa to Find Alien Life

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.
Science & Energy

Researchers: Claim of Life Molecules on Venus May Have Been an Error

So far, the hunt for extraterrestrial life hasn't succeeded. But thankfully, there are loads of star systems with a clear view of us instead.
Off-World

Aliens in These Star Systems Could See Life on Earth, Scientists Say

Researchers are puzzled by a number of strange and unexplained lights that show up in photographic plates of the night sky that date back over 70 years.
Exobiology

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Lights in Old Space Photos

Harvard astrophysics professor Avi Loeb called on the scientific community to search not just for mysterious radio signals, but for alien probes as well.
Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomer Says We Should Hunt for Alien Probes

Astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests civilizations could advance so much they could eventually be able to change the laws of physics.
Physics

NASA Sponsored Researcher Suggests It Might Be Possible to Change the Laws of Physics

A pair of scientists has some guesses for how any theoretical life hiding away under the acid clouds of Venus might have originated.
Science & Energy

Scientists Speculate About How Life on Venus Could Have Begun