Earth is teeming with life — and water makes it all possible. But elsewhere in the cosmos, life might be built from different chemicals that dissolve and assemble in some other liquid: perhaps methane ...

Colonies growing on petri dishes, plants bolting from pots, stem cells splitting — while many University researchers are focused on the samples available in their labs, one is interested in exploring ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life ...

When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life. Six ...

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Imagine being abducted by aliens in the middle of the night, beaming up into the strange monochromatic interiors of a colossal spaceship. You’re placed on a bench within a spherical pod, fearing the ...

A collaborative project dubbed “A Sign in Space” is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for simulating a message to Earth from intelligent aliens. The project involved beaming an encoded message ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

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