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

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

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

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...

The resulting products were ionized; their mass-to-charge ratios were determined based on the time it took for them to reach ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

Astronomy has unveiled some of the most impressive results: two Earth-sized Exoplanets orbiting a very nearby star called HD ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Astrobiologists are redefining the search for extraterrestrial life, focusing on evolution and complexity in physical systems. Methods include spectroscopy for detecting chemical signatures and ...