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A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like? These questions are preoccupying astrobiologists, who are scientists who look for life beyond Earth.

Find out what scientists have discovered about K2-18b and why it’s one of the most promising exoplanets in the search for alien life.

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien ...

NASA has tasked a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist who studies extremophiles with figuring out what aliens ...