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

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

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

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

A team of researchers in Germany have proposed a new method for searching for life on alien worlds, which they believe could ...

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 ...

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

Human ambition to want to know as much as possible about everything around us in space is something that could already be considered historical. Advances are continuing and NASA's ...

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

NASA announced last month that they found flowing water on Mars. The discovery is our best evidence yet that the planet supports life, but as science journalist Carl Zimmer explains, life on Mars ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...