Using data collected as Cassini flew through Titan's upper atmosphere, at about 950–1300 km (590-807 miles) above the surface, researchers have identified what are known as 'carbon chain anions'.

A deep-sea submersible robot that can analyse life-forms, was sent to the trench to analyse the microbes Reuters Researchers have discovered microbes - primitive forms of life - alive in the Mariana ...

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A four billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported. In 1996, a Nasa-led ...