Are we on the brink of discovering extraterrestrial life? Exciting revelations from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and Mars have ...

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

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...

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