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

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life ...

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 ...

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery ...

There's something inherently satisfying about drinking the same cocktail as the character whose world you're sharing.

The aim is to establish better coordination between astronauts, robotic missions, and artificial intelligence.

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

Mistletoe survives alone as a street cat, lurking in the shadows, until one day he finds a trio of kittens. Heroically, on ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is racing away from the sun. Hubble and JWST track the object's strange composition: high CO2, low water, and atomic nickel vapour.