ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.
When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...
Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.
A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...
Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...
In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.
The recent discovery of an enigmatic substance on the surfaces of both Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and Pluto, our solar ...
A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very different one on Earth. The molecules are pristane and phytane, ...
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say their statistical toolbox will be used aboard planned Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft, Eureka, set to reach Jupiter's smallest moon in the 2030s ...
Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...
Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates ...