The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

W hen we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The ...

Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just ...

Researchers have created the first color key of sky-dwelling microbes to help detect signs of alien life in the clouds of ...

Clouds could help reveal life on distant planets, not hide it — thanks to a color code for atmospheric microbes, according to the Cornell Chronicle. Cornell researchers built the first reflectance ...

Ellery suggested that building a nuclear reactor on the Moon could yield chemical signatures that could be explored in the ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In the late 1800s Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli pointed a telescope at Mars ...

The Xenomorphs are returning once again. FX has renewed Alien: Earth for a second season which will begin production next ...