Researchers at Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute have screened more than 6,000 known exoplanets and identified 45 ...

NASA is shifting to commercial spaceflight to have private companies build the next space station. Explore the lucrative ...

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...

Scientists may have found the strongest hint yet that life could exist beyond Earth, and the focus is not Mars but a distant ...

Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Dust devils are a regular feature on Mars. Just like those found on Earth, these mini whirlwinds form when parts of Mars are ...