NASA’s report of potential signs of ancient life on Mars has reignited a long-running scientific debate about how common life ...

Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...

The baker’s yeast that helps make bread and beer may also hold secrets to life beyond Earth. A new study by researchers at ...

Researchers discover that Baker’s yeast can survive Martian conditions, offering insights for astrobiology and future space exploration.

BEIJING -- China is transitioning from being a user of space technology to a major contributor to humanity's cosmic understanding, said Wang Chi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar ...

Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

HYDERABAD: At just thirteen, Iniya Pragathi, the world’s youngest analogue astronaut from Chennai, has achieved what most can ...