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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 ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

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

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 ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...

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 ...

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.

Most people believe in life on other planets, a newly released study that canvassed respondents around the world claims. After surveying 26,492 people in 24 countries, research firm Motivaction found ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...