Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

The search for extraterrestrial life extends beyond Mars to include moons like Europa and Enceladus, which might harbor life-sustaining conditions. Discoveries such as extremophiles on Earth, capable ...

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

But these hot and cold spells may have been detrimental to life if it existed on the Red Planet. Mars may be a dry and arid planet today, but scientists know that Earth's neighbor was much wetter ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a robot looking for microbes, it would be easier and cheaper to make the ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so much we can do on Earth that will give us massive insights,” Nadeau says. And ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

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In other words, Mars had a warm body of water, open to the air and not covered by ice, supporting the possibility that there was in fact life on Mars. "The team estimates that the ripples formed ...

So, apart from Mars, the search for other forms of life is focused on satellites, especially those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Europa and Enceladus – moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively ...