Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

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 ...

As the search for life on Mars continues – with promising potential biosignatures identified last year by NASA at the Bright Angel formation – there are a few scientists out there who think we may ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

United States President Donald Trump says he’ll release government files relating to alien and extraterrestrial life.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...