The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

Claims about the detection of life on other planets go back decades. In the 1970s, one of the scientists working on the Viking mission to Mars claimed that his experiment had indicated there could ...

Life. But how would we know it ... Laboratory studies hint that it could be broken out of other molecules under UV light. Professor Madhusudhan concedes there could be previously unknown chemical ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

Recently, Cambridge University scientists discovered the best candidate so far for extraterrestrial life on an ocean world, 120 light years away. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...