This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

NASA’s deepest space scan uncovered an eerily Earthlike planet—matching size and composition but showing no signs of life at ...

The biosignatures were rooted in tentative detections, and this sparked debate amongst astronomers, who were skeptical about ...

A decade-old image from NASA’s Curiosity rover has gone viral, suggesting a mushroom-like object on Mars. While UFO ...

Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions ...

The discovery of a new cosmic object signaling Earth is causing a firestorm at NASA, as scientists don't know how to explain ...

NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...