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 ...

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.

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 ...

Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms ...

"If the object is an alien spacecraft slowing down, and the anti-tail is braking thrust, then this change from anti-tail to ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

The annual report from UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory highlights data transparency, technology and ...

“The settlement of North America and other continents was a prelude to humanity’s greater challenge: the space frontier,” the ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...