From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

It's been a busy year if you believe in aliens. We've had 31/Atlas, which a lot of people, including a Harvard scientist, were convinced was an alien spaceship before NASA confirmed it was a comet.

Now in its eighth year, the Universal Composers Initiative seeks to find artists from both traditional and non-conventional ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, ...

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

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...