NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...