Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes ...

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 1 The mission of any ship in Starfleet involves boldly going and seeking out new life and new civilizations. That’s ...

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

Terraforming Mars has crossed from science fiction to a structured scientific research agenda, according to a peer-reviewed ...

A rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth has offered the 'strongest evidence yet' that other planets besides Earth could ...

New research suggests AI can be repeatedly fooled into mistaking non-life for life.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that has an atmosphere and sits within the habitable zone of a solar system.

While the celestial body seems to host three features that could make a livable environment—an atmosphere, a rocky ...

How life started on our own planet may not seem as interesting as finding evidence of life on Mars or the icy moons Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes on Earth remains as ...

Geeks rejoice. A new study suggests that if extraterrestrial life exists, it’s likely being lived on this exoplanet.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation announced that it passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2026, which extends the operations of the International ...

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...