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 ...

China is preparing an ambitious mission to return samples from Mars back to Earth for the first time. The Tianwen-3 mission ...

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

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured a series of black and white panoramas at two times of day which were then merged ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

A new Bill Lawrence comedy starring Steve Carell and a new mystery starring Nicole Kidman are among this month’s highlights.

The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.

EXCLUSIVE: NASA's chief medical officer has exclusively told the Daily Star that he believes there is 'a risk' of Mars based ...