As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

A new anomaly was discovered in 3I/ATLAS. The captured asymmetrical halo in the comet is now sounding planetary defence ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the ...

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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

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

Beyond better testing, we need better protection. Physical shields seem like the obvious first defense. Hydrogen-rich materials such as polyethylene and water-absorbing hydrogels can slow charged ...

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