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

A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

The solar storm slammed the Earth on May 11, 2024, proving to be the biggest recorded on our planet for over 20 years. It generated bright auroras, usually restricted to our plane ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

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

Slow-burn office crushes that left you weeping, sitcoms that made you fall in love and vampire shows that changed you for ever: Guardian readers pick their ultimate television romances ...

A European spacecraft heading to Jupiter has caught the most detailed image of the comet that had astronomers perplexed and worried it might hit the Earth. The interstellar comet ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Slava Tsukerman, the Russian-born writer and director of the stylish 1982 cult hit “Liquid Sky,” died Monday. He was 85. The ...