We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. In the last 30 ...
Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What ...
A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...
Extraterrestrial life could betray itself not in the molecules themselves, but in their arrangement. A recent study shows that living systems leave distinctive statistical patterns in their organic ...