From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

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From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Credit: NASA/JPL New evidence from NASA, published in the journal Nature, shows that the Martian surface might be even less ...

Astronomers continue to track the mysterious interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS as it speeds through the solar system, using ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will be launching the Martian Moons eXploration mission next year, which should ...