When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed ...

New research suggests AI can be repeatedly fooled into mistaking non-life for life. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been ...