Star Trek's Genesis device melts a world down and rebuilds it. Thompson does something similar on a tiny scale, using a laser ...

In "The Devil in the Dark," the silicon-based Horta go undetected by scans built for carbon-based life. Wong expects real ...

Although the habitability of early Mars is now well established, its suitability for conditions favorable to an independent origin of life (OoL) has been less certain. With continued exploration, ...