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Equatorial regions of the potentially life-supporting Europa, which harbors a huge ocean of salty liquid water beneath its icy shell, are probably studded with blades of ice up to 50 feet (15 meters) tall, a new study suggests. This…

Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. <!-- Topic <!-- --> A new project, the Trillion Planet Survey, is searching for alien life in new ways. The project uses a…

It isn’t just people who are wrestling with the big questions about the cosmos. At NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL), researchers are using machine learning to explore whether life could exist on other planets, how to defend Earth from…

Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen, is back. Amanda occupies a strange, interesting little piece of the Alien canon. First mentioned in a cut scene from Aliens, Amanda was made the star of the original story of Alien: Isolation, the…

PHONE HOME Are we alone in the universe? Hunting for biological signatures of life on moons and exoplanets is just one way we might find an answer. Another is to look for “technosignatures” of alien technology — radio signals or microwaves…

Our hunt for life on other planets is based on what it looks like today, but early Earth used to be so different. What if we are missing some vital clues? By Kelly Oakes FEW discoveries could be bigger than detecting life on another…