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On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the ...

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The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

A US congresswoman claims classified proof of non-human intelligence as UFOs and interdimensional beings. We analyse whether ...

Twists like Darth Vader's reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, or the ending of The Mist, are among the greatest and most ...

American space agency is on the search for the perfect food system for Mars missions, launches the Deep Space Food Challenge: ...

We asked our readers to name their favourite films in the sci-fi genre – and these were the titles that came up most often.