A leading British space scientist maintains that Jupiter's icy moon is very likely to be home to alien organisms.
A microbe with an appetite for meteorites has shown that space rocks may be able to carry life across the cosmos.
The research organization is today celebrating 35 years of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
A zoo in Paris has showcased one of the world's strangest organisms - a brainless, self-healing 'blob'.
A spokesperson for Tom Delonge's controversial UFO organization has commented on its recent acquisition.
A new paper has suggested that we may have no choice but to spread microorganisms to the Red Planet.
It turns out that our skin may be home to an entirely new organ and it is all to do with how we process pain.
Tom DeLonge's UFO organization claims to be studying 'metamaterials' that may be extraterrestrial in origin.
According to a new study, many planets in the so-called habitable zone can only support single-celled organisms.
The live, lab-made microbe, which has a fully synthetic DNA code, is the first of its kind ever created.
Scientists have discovered what is thought to be the oldest known person with this rare congenital condition.
Scientists have identified the fossilized tracks of a worm-like organism that lived 2.1 billion years ago.
Scientists have discovered the remains of several types of organisms in a lake over 1km beneath the ice.
The organisms, which sit on a 'major new branch' of the tree of life, were found in woodland in Nova Scotia.
A single-celled protozoan may actually be a lot faster than cheetahs, marlins or peregrine falcons.
NASA is investigating the possibility of sending a probe to Mars that could directly seek out alien life forms.
In a recent Twitter exchange, Leland Melvin described seeing 'something organic/alien-like' in the payload bay.
Scientists have determined that Saturn's icy moon has 'all of the basic requirements for life as we know it'.
Scientists have revealed that the building blocks of life are far more common on Ceres than previously believed.
NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars.