627 million km (390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our human minds even comprehend such an alien creature? It ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa has long looked like a frozen cue ball, its bright shell of ice hiding a global ocean that many astrobiologists see as one of the most promising places for life beyond Earth. New ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

A new system capable of identifying complex molecular signatures could aid in the search for alien life in the universe and could even lead to the creation of new forms of life in the laboratory, ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

The search for life-supporting worlds in the solar system includes the Jovian moon Europa. Yes, it's an iceberg of a world, but underneath its frozen exterior lies a deep, salty ocean and a ...