Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

The search for extraterrestrial life extends beyond Mars to include moons like Europa and Enceladus, which might harbor life-sustaining conditions. Discoveries such as extremophiles on Earth, capable ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

But these hot and cold spells may have been detrimental to life if it existed on the Red Planet. Mars may be a dry and arid planet today, but scientists know that Earth's neighbor was much wetter ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so much we can do on Earth that will give us massive insights,” Nadeau says. And ...

A recently discovered square structure on Mars has intrigued scientists and enthusiasts, including Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. The structure's near-perfe ...

Areas close to the mounds, such as Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis, are of interest to scientists because they may preserve past signs of life on Mars. The mounds span the 310 miles (500 kilometers ...

Harvard scientists studying the mystery of water and life on ancient Mars believe they may have finally found a solution.

In other words, Mars had a warm body of water, open to the air and not covered by ice, supporting the possibility that there was in fact life on Mars. "The team estimates that the ripples formed ...

So, apart from Mars, the search for other forms of life is focused on satellites, especially those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Europa and Enceladus – moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively ...