The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The new Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is more than a fresh control room, it is a deliberate ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The past year won't be remembered as one that marked a record of important space missions, but one when the foundations for ...

The surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape. At least, that's the conclusion of George J.

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...