SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the ...

Was alien life in "hot water" on Mars billions of years ago? New evidence from the Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" suggests ...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

To create LignoSat, researchers used honoki, a type of magnolia tree native to Japan and normally used to make sword covers.

The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for alien life.

The examination of a sample brought from asteroid Ryugu in outer space turned exciting for scientists when they found it had ...

Can humans really survive on Mars? Can all the technology in the world protect them from the intense radiation and the harsh ...

A recent groundbreaking NASA study has revealed a significant discovery about the protein configurations that may give rise ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating ...