Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

But if they’re a little too sci-fi for your taste, new research funded by NASA from the SETI Institute provides a ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA states that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...

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.

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI ...

NASA has revealed a major update on the massive “city killer” asteroid amid fears after scientists debated using nuclear weapons to stop it.

NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon in 2032 based on newly analyzed data.

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from the a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.