Asteroid impacts may catapult life from one planet to another, as new research claims that hardy bacteria can survive the ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

Debates over extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects have taken on a new political dimension in the United ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms floating in layers in water. Here on Earth, we have carbon-based life forms, ...

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...