When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

Musk’s science fiction dream of human life on Mars finally met his pocketbook. The accountants burst his bubble by explaining that the moon is a cheaper option. And he gets US Gov. taxpayer funds so ...

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching ...