A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Performance artist Marina Abramović explains what inspired her to be a major feature of the new Balloon Museum in New York.

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may not stay narrow as they travel away from their home system.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

After looking at the rate of decay of amino acids under cosmic radiation, NASA discovered that ice can protect biosignatures for up to 50 million years.

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

Reserachers gathered experimental data exploring whether bacteria could survive a journey between planets via an asteroid ...

For the decades that scientists have been looking for alien signals through a work known as SETI, they have tended to look for spikes in frequency. Such signals are thought to be unlikely to be caused ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...