Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

Life on Earth might not be as Earthly as we think. A recent research published in The Conversation explores a revived and ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

They’re not completely sure. They never are. But this time, they’re pretty sure. Or, at the very least, sure enough to alert the media. Scientists monitoring the Perseverance Mars rover mission have ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

In 20 years, you could be holidaying on Mars. That’s according to Elon Musk, who thinks one million Earthlings, some born ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.