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"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

We inhabit a small planet that rotates around one of 100 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy. And the Milky Way is only one ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

Tonally speaking, the “Alien” movies span several genres — mainly action, horror and operatic sci-fi. The best double as ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

"We now know that 1 in every 4 stars, at least, has a planet that is the same size as Earth and is rocky, and is the same temperature as Earth, so it's what we would call a habitable-zone planet.

Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life's other kingdoms? With ...

A fellow Argentinian journalist who interviewed the lauded Lalo Schifrin over a span of three decades shares how it was only about "making music, not in winning any Oscars." ...

Nature Geoscience - Biology meets astronomyAstrobiology, the study of life in the Solar System and beyond, is a relatively new field that seeks to answer a very old and fundamental question: where ...