When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Some scientists think alien life could thrive in the clouds of Venus, seen here by Japan's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Ken Crawford/Wikimedia Commons There’s a theory that’s in vogue in ...

Life as we know it needs water, but life as we don't know it may run on concentrated sulfuric acid. The chemistry of life as we know it wouldn't work in a place like the huge Saturn moon Titan, where ...

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This fall, NASA scientists revealed evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars, a major finding supplying evidence of the existence on Mars of the ingredients necessary for the creation of organic ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing themselves — and its key ingredient is a common amino acid that’s found in ...