Is water enough to find alien life? New research reveals phosphorus and nitrogen are crucial. Discover the 'chemical ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

Experts believe that we may now be close to finding extraterrestrial life. A specific point in our sky could hold the answer ...

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Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

What if alien life on other planets didn’t need liquid water to exist? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

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Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago. When ...