In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped rock called Cheyava ...

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth, but its detection on Venus shows that it can also be produced abiotically ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding ...

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Apr 25, 2025, 08:11pm EDT Apr 27, 2025, 05:35pm EDT This ...

In the early 1960s, the independent scientist James Lovelock worked as a consultant for NASA developing ways to analyse extraterrestrial atmospheres. This work led him to the dramatic conclusion that ...

New laboratory data indicates that if the gas phosphine is on Venus, it could come from deep in the planet’s interior. Reading time 3 minutes A team of planetary scientists said that if there is ...