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

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

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

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

Abstract: The current Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRISs), constructed with Nb-Ti wires and the conventional racetrack-and-solenoid structure, have achieved operating frequencies up to ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with the likes of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arguing that we should skip the Moon entirely in favor of the Red ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...