Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

Debates over extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects have taken on a new political dimension in the United States.

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

NASA has given a hilarious response to President Trump following his demand for UFO files - and it dashes hopes of an ...

Your home is crawling with life you can't see. Explore 18 fascinating microscopic beings that live in most houses, from dust mites to strange fungi.

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information says pneumonia hospitalizations rose by almost one-third across Canada last year.

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...