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

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

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

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

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The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

Because Titan is tidally locked, the same side of the moon faces Saturn all the time, just like our own moon and Earth.

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Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...