The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

The search for life beyond Earth has always been full of surprises. Strange radio signals have sparked excitement. Odd gases on distant worlds have raised questions. Even ordinary objects have been ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.

Wall Street banks have high hopes for SpaceX but at the moment shares of Elon Musk’s rocket market appear to be earthbound.

July has arrived with explosions of fireworks and celebrations of the 250th anniversary of our country. For those who aren’t ...

Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located just 25 light-years away.

When War of the Worlds was adapted into a sci-fi series in the late 80s, the show made major changes to H.G. Wells' original ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

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