The universe may be teeming with life but what would alien biology really look like? In Part II of The Teeming Universe ...

Alien biology: How will astronomers actually know if they've found extraterrestrial life? There are no set standards for extraterrestrial life, so will scientists even recognize it when they see it?

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

How would scientists even recognize biological signs of life beyond Earth? Assembly theory proposes a way to identify molecules made by living systems—even those using unfamiliar chemistries.

This is particularly critical for astrobiologists planning to look for specific chemicals that indicate that there is alien biology happening on planets beyond the solar system.

A striking, silver-colored fish commonly kept as an aquarium pet has been hiding in plain sight in the Philippines' largest ...

Students still attend traditional biology lectures, and in addition to their virtual reality labs, they spend about three hours a week analyzing what they encountered in the Alien Zoo, VandenBrooks ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...