But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

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What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

Scientists think Europa contains a vast saltwater ocean deep beneath its surface. A NASA director said the mission is a "generational quest" that could lead to alien-life discoveries. NASA is serious ...

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

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what ...

In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life — and there's only one way to find out. When you ...

Space exploration is about to enter a new era later this year, as American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch perhaps its most ambitious alien-life-hunting mission ever. Centered around a ...

James O'Donoghue receives funding from the UK's Science and Technologies Facilities Council as an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Reading. Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean that lurks beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa? “This is a ...