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

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

The search for alien life has moved from planets to moons. This video dives into the hidden, globe-spanning oceans beneath ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has long intrigued scientists for its potential to harbor alien life. Recent studies have ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

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

The unusual specimen raised eyebrows because it appeared capable of causing levitation. An official investigation has not ...

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

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 ...

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