More than 80% of our planet’s oceans remain unmapped, unexplored, and largely unknown. That staggering figure means we have a better understanding of the surface of Mars than we do of Earth’s own deep ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to search for extraterrestrial life.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science at Freie Universität Berlin, has published a study in Science Advances with ...

Natural sorting of ocean salts in icy vents on Saturn’s moon could aid the search for life, researchers report. With a global ocean of liquid water below a thick crust of ice, Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

Everyone has probably looked up at the night sky and wondered, 'Is there someone out there somewhere in this universe?' It's ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...