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 ...

New Scans of a Martian Meteorite That Landed on Earth Strengthen ‘Alien Life’ Claims ...

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

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

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

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...