Latest about Search for Life
The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how the complex building blocks of life first formed, finding dust traps around young stars could make an ideal formation location.
Signs of life could survive on solar system moons Enceladus and Europa
Signs of life could survive on the icy surfaces of Saturn's and Jupiter's moons, Enceladus and Europa, despite harsh radiation bombardment from the sun and supernovas.
The great silence: Just 4 in 10,000 galaxies may host intelligent aliens
Without plate tectonics, oceans and continents, complex life that is able to invent and master advanced technology might never evolve.
If alien terraforming emits greenhouse gases, our telescopes could detect it
A new thought experiment reveals how greenhouse gases can be used as a technosignature in the hunt for aliens.
Area 51: What is it and what goes on there?
Reference Area 51 is a U.S. military base that has become synonymous with tales of UFOs, government cover-ups and potentially testing alien technology.
If alien life exists on Europa, we may find it in hydrothermal vents
Cool to moderately warm hydrothermal vents circulating water through the seabed could sustain habitable conditions on moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus for billions of years.
Life after stellar death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Stellar death need not be the end for orbiting planets, which could see their ice melt as they move closer to the white dwarf that their star evolves into.
Private Odysseus moon lander reveals which Earth 'technosignatures' aliens might see
By looking at Earth as an exoplanet, astronomers hope to search for similar fingerprints coming from planets around other stars, which would be a potential sign of intelligent life.
