“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Boffins plan to set a vampire trap to lure out aliens hiding on Mars using a chemical in human blood. Astrobiologists are ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study says that ancient microbes could have been responsible for Mars’s climate ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive in space.