When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Bruno Mars’s latest album “The Romantic” has debuted at No. 1 on the albums chart, making it his first full-length project to bow atop the tally. The singer’s fourth offering enters the Billboard 200 ...

Russell Maliphant is showing me a useful exercise for getting out of a chair. “You clasp your hands, stick one leg out ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

The idea of humans living on Mars is closer to reality than it’s ever been. On Feb. 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ferried an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, another ...