A rare 4.1-billion-year-old Martian meteorite, Teghaza 001, provides new clues about Mars' ancient and more habitable past.

Computer simulations suggest comets carrying a key precursor to many of life's building blocks would have rarely—if ever—successfully reached Earth's surface. And even if they did, only specific landi ...

H.G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, was first published in 1898. It tells the story of a Martian invasion of Earth. The ...

Could ancient alien technology be hiding on the Moon? Scientists propose searching lunar dust for microscopic traces of ...

Science fiction is a genre that lets us explore new worlds and big ideas. It can take us to distant galaxies, show us amazing ...

American space agency NASA has opened the books for people to submit their names to be carried on a microchip by the ...

The microorganism grew despite being stuck in oxygen-free, carbon-rich, low-pressure, and extremely salty environments.

Cracks along a giant Martian volcano, possibly above a magma chamber, might be spewing magmatic gases into the atmosphere, ...

A new experiment reveals that Earth’s microbes can grow in harsh conditions similar to what may exist just below the surface ...

Things that are far more impressive than what we are trying to accomplish with our technologies were done by nature billions ...