Two scientists want NASA to build a quarantine lab for alien germs on the Moon, rather than on Earth. The pair, ...

Just three decades ago, astronomers had no evidence that planets commonly orbited other stars. Then in 2025, NASA confirmed ...

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous "Pink Planet," solving a long-standing mystery about one of ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

An illustration of the hazy, pink-hued gassy giant GJ504b, which may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf orbiting a nearby ...

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

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

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...