When scientists search for alien life, they usually look for planets that resemble Earth. The reasoning is simple. Every ...
The search for alien life has captured the popular imagination for decades. Are they friendly… intelligent… green? The average person may conceive of alien life as anything from the large-brained ...
We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...
At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is an ecosystem that has been isolated for the past 65 million years, since geological activity separated it from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Like the teeming ecosystems ...
Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...