Extraterrestrial life is the most interesting thing ever, bar nothing, and if you disagree you're either a terribly limited person or misread the start of the sentence.  We're incredibly lucky to even exist, and on top of that we have two possible life-locations right here on our solar system d...

Life On Mars, The Sun "NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the "ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe. The gas, belched in vast quantities in our worl...

When Intelligent and Natural Design Collide is the title of the linked article at Wired Science. A science writer was inspired to ponder principles of Intelligent Design while flying to California. He contacted astronomer Seth Shostak for input. Concerning the ambiguity inherent to observation and i...

On a recent flight to California, I found myself looking at man-made structures in the Nevada desert and wondering: did I really know, in a scientifically valid way, that they were artificial? Or was I simply resorting to the principles of Intelligent Design, which in other contexts I'm quick to dis...

Space the Final Frontier, Nobel and Ignobel Prizes, Intelligent Machines, Jesus Sharks, Short Term Memory Loss, Why Justin’s Working On His Pecs, Warning For Bald Men, Girls Gone Math, and Another Bisphenol-A Study....

NASA Astrobiology Research: Astronaut, Scientists Explore Lake to Learn More About Life (Video and links added) Editor's note: NASA Ames Public Affairs has dropped the ball again. They did not bother to mention the word "astrobiology", Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP...

Science fiction is filled with unusual alien species. But apart from the occasional robot, biological life is running the show. But NASA scientist, Dr. Steven Dick, sees a future Universe that has evolved past biology. Where every intelligence is artificial. Consider the likelihood of a postbiologic...