News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with ...

Musk also expressed a vision for the future where humanity, possibly with the aid of Martians (or colonists on Mars), could ...

Center have been awarded a three-year, $480,000 grant under the NASA Exoplanets Research Program to search for radio and laser signals from alien civilizations. The project is led by Pinchen Fan, a ...

An off-the-record conversation about UFOs and alien civilizations late former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month at ...

The Perseverance rover has collected Martian rock samples in two different ways, which NASA believes may contain evidence of ...

The critics will call it “space marine meets the Valkyrie”, but Elon Musk’s interview of Alice Weidel, co-chair of the ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable than it appears — but Martian soil is also dense and clay-like, the ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...