Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

Imagined planets, ecosystems and creatures show how diverse alien biology could become.

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is one of the places scientists say alien life could be hiding in plain sight. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Space agencies might have already captured evidence of ...

That was the reaction inside the Dreamscape Learn Lab at St. Charles Community College — where biology students aren’t just reading about cells in a textbook. They’re stepping inside them. The ...