Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests.

Scientists have synthesized methanetetrol, an elusive alcohol that could be the foundation of alien life. Chemists have ...

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

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Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

Recent developments in astrobiology have sparked global intrigue as scientists report the detection of a potential alien life ...

Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.

While the outer solar system gets most of the attention, the inner solar system might be hiding secrets about ...

Even the Alien franchise has transformed over the years, from the haunted-house-in-space horrors of 1979's Alien, to the ...

COMMENT: The new sci-fi horror serves as an alarm bell about the current state of the world, and the technological threats we ...

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