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What if scientists find signs of alien life? Experiment suggests we won’t freak out

AUSTIN, Texas — If extraterrestrial life exists, there’s a chance we’ll detect it sometime in the next 20 years. And then… Read More

Scientists fine-tune the formula for finding the signature of life in alien atmospheres

Is the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere of an alien world the only sure-fire sign that life is present?… Read More

Scientists want future space telescopes to look for risky signs of alien civilizations

Global warming and nuclear blasts may be bad for humanity, but astrobiologists say they could be good indicators of the… Read More

How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life

BERKELEY, Calif. — Twenty years after the movie “Contact” brought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, to the big… Read More

Ross 128 redux: Red dwarf sparks interest as a potentially not-so-weird locale for life

A red dwarf star that was previously thought to be the source of a weird signal from aliens turns out… Read More

Billionaire Yuri Milner discusses his plan to look for life on Saturn moon – and his Russian connections

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner today laid out his vision to send the first privately funded interplanetary space mission to look… Read More

Project Blue tries again with crowdfunding campaign for planet-watching telescope

Project Blue is launching a second try to attract crowdfunding for a space telescope designed to study planets in the… Read More

Why these scientists argue that we are turning Earth into an alien planet

A trio of scientists has just laid out a new classification scheme for planets that would put Earth into a… Read More

Voyager at 40: ‘The Search for Life in Space’ puts big question on the big screen

What better way to celebrate 40 years of NASA’s interplanetary Voyager mission than with an eye-filling movie that brings the… Read More

Hubble keeps hope alive for water on potentially habitable TRAPPIST-1 planets

Do some of the Earth-sized planets around a dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years away, have liquid water? Newly… Read More

Seemingly strange radio signals from a red dwarf star spark interest at Arecibo

The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will take a closer look at a red dwarf star known… Read More

Newfound super-Earth could be the best planet for analyzing alien atmospheres

It’s not the closest potentially habitable planet, but astronomers say a world 40 percent wider than Earth could be one of… Read More

Hubble spots more signs of Europa’s watery plumes, lifting hopes for habitability

Saturn’s moon Enceladus wasn’t the only ice-covered world making waves today: Scientists say Europa, a mysterious moon of Jupiter, has… Read More

Enceladus’ plumes suggest that Saturn moon’s ocean could support microbial life

Scientists have detected molecules of hydrogen in plumes of watery material erupting from cracks in the ice of Enceladus, a… Read More

‘Life’ horror movie sparks reality check on procedures for studying Mars samples

Spoiler Alert! This article doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but wait to read it if you’re trying to stay… Read More

Horror movie ‘Life’ draws upon real-life biology and worst-case space scenarios

A real-life organism provides the inspiration for the alien monster at the center of “Life,” a horror movie that’s set on… Read More

Looking for life: Scientists find 7 possibly Earthlike planets orbiting ultracool star

A second look at an exoplanet system 40 light-years from Earth has brought a bonanza for astronomers: not two, not… Read More

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Scientists revive weird microbes after freeing them from ancient cave crystals

BOSTON – It sounds like a sci-fi tale: Scientists manage to revive strains of microbes that have been trapped inside giant… Read More

Marijuana fans mix with space fans at The Goodship Company’s Seattle SETI salon

Is Seattle’s Goodship Higher Education Series about bringing together cannabis users? Or is it about deep subjects like the search for… Read More

Far out, man! SETI astronomer will explain the search for aliens to potential potheads

You don’t have to be stoned to appreciate SETI scientist Seth Shostak’s perspective on the search for extraterrestrials – but… Read More

UW researchers trace how complex life lost its first chance to dominate Planet Earth

Researchers say multicellular life could have arisen in Earth’s oceans more than 2 billion years ago, only to fall victim to a… Read More

Video: How will we get to Alpha Centauri? Researchers work on an antimatter drive

Project Blue’s scientists still have to raise more than $800,000 over the next 15 days to reach their initial crowdfunding goal… Read More

Future life as we don’t know it? Scientists breed proteins to bond silicon and carbon

Using directed evolution, researchers say they’ve “bred” protein molecules from an unusual type of bacteria to create chemical bonds between… Read More

Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths

How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri’s twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue… Read More

A not-so-simple response: Messages beamed to aliens amid debate over perils

More than 3,000 messages were beamed toward the North Star today by a powerful radio telescope – and although the exercise… Read More

Hubble readings firm up evidence for plumes of water at Jupiter’s moon Europa

It’s not aliens. And it’s not exactly surprising, despite NASA’s advance billing. But new evidence of water plumes emanating from… Read More

NASA says pictures from Hubble reveal ‘surprising’ hints of Europa’s hidden ocean

NASA is gearing up to unveil “surprising evidence” of activity that may be related to the presence of a watery… Read More

Proxima’s progress: Why it’ll take years to learn what closest exoplanet is really like

University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says Proxima Centauri b is the biggest discovery in 20 years for planet hunters like… Read More

A chiral link to life’s origins? Scientists find mirror molecules in interstellar cloud

Researchers say they’ve found the first evidence of mirror-image molecules in interstellar space – a discovery that relates to the chemistry that… Read More

Have any alien civilizations ever existed? Astronomers say the chances are sky-high

Are we alone? Fifty-five years ago, astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation that weighed the odds for aliens,… Read More