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Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...

In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock coined Cheyava Falls with the SHERLOC instrument on its robotic arm. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover has reported the most robust ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.

Data from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the ...

In September 2025, NASA announced that its Perseverance rover had discovered a potential biosignature, which is a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. A new paper, published in ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...