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Arizona State University doctoral candidates Tanner Barnes and Vince Debes hike Yellowstone's trails not as tourists, but as astrobiologists hunting for clues about life beyond Earth. Their ...

Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet K2-18b, most experts do not yet think alien life has probably been found.

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What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent SETI Live discussion about newly updated post-detection protocols and how ...

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Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very ...