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 ...

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

Call it the Orson Scott Card problem. You want to recommend a piece of sci-fi to a friend, but you know that if you do you’ll have to include the disclaimer that the author’s politics are ...

The rocket’s death came via a seemingly pedestrian notice posted on a government procurement website: “NASA/MSFC intends to ...

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new study has found, suggesting that microbes could endure interplanetary ...

It's a great new look at an intriguing region called Arabia Terra.

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

NASA’s Moon to Mars plan prioritizes risk management and safety through systems engineering, redundancy, and collaborative strategies with industry and government partners.

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

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