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A curved, icy surface stretches across the lower portion of the frame, with multiple bright jets of vapor and particles erupting upward into a black sky from the moon's fractured southern terrain.

Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life

Alien Life, Solar System

Chilean gypsum could help us find biosignatures on Mars

Could life travel between planets on an asteroid? This hardy bacterium suggests it can

Animal life unlikely around a third of stars in the galaxy, study says

Organic molecules in Saturn’s rings originated from liquid water, scientists confirm

NASA study finds Ceres may have once been habitable

NASA announces strongest evidence yet for ancient life on Mars

Science retracts controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper

Alien Life, Exoplanets

The search for biosignatures in the Milky Way

Alien Life, Exoplanets

New study revisits signs of life on K2-18 b

Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples

Illustration of DNA

How we might look for life in the universe — even if we can’t recognize it