What if we are not alone — and never were? Life Beyond is a cinematic series exploring the possibility of life beyond Earth, the deep timeline of the universe, and our role in the vast cosmic story.

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after the space agency highlighted how scientists found sugars essential for life ...

What lies beyond Earth... and beyond us? Life Beyond is a cinematic exploration of alien life, deep time, and the far-reaching future of intelligence in the universe. Minnesota fraud scheme unearths ...

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...

Not all maps chart the Earth’s surface — and the David Rumsey Map Center’s newest exhibition in Green Library proves just that. The exhibit “Above & Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain” opened on Oct. 8 ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Northern California.

Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested spectrum make real-time decision-making from the ground impossible when you ...