Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Researchers have been looking for life on Mars for a long time, and they might have found it on one occasion, only to destroy ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

At the beginning of the month, the two benefics, Venus and Jupiter, make shifts that will light up our creativity and freedom ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...