We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...

A test set-up with natural gas and hydrogen flares: with a visual camera, the hydrogen flares are not or hardly visible.

Saskia Birt uncovers the significant environmental stakes of deep-sea mining and its unforeseen role in oceanic oxygen production.

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Companies have been manufacturing synthetic fuels for nearly a century by combining carbon monoxide (which can be sourced ...

Machine learning system combines nanoforest humidity sensing with temperature data to recognize nine distinct behaviors from breathing patterns in real-time.

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

With its rapid response and low cost, this hydrogen sensor is set to revolutionize safety measures in hydrogen energy, ...

Water might have formed much earlier than previously thought. Computer simulations show supernovae produced significant ...