Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana studies planets beyond our solar system in the search for alien life. But he now faces ...

Gone are the days when the search for life beyond Earth was confined to science fiction movies or spirited debates. Now, thanks to dramatic advances in astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology, ...

The leading UFO expert Nick Pope reportedly claimed before his death that the government was deliberately keeping information ...

Earth already contains organisms that survive conditions humans could never endure. Alien life, if it exists, may force ...

Former NASA astronaut Winston Scott said he believes intelligent alien life exists, but cautioned that military conflict in ...

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Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

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In the late 1950s, a small group of scientists began to search for alien life. Among them was geneticist Joshua Lederberg at Stanford, who in 1960 spoke at the First International Space Science ...