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.

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

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.

The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s auction ...

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

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 ...