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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle, but the scale of mass, heat, oxygen, and energy required makes it far beyond current capability.

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

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

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

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...