NASA’s EMIT instrument, originally designed to study minerals in deserts, is now uncovering signs of sewage pollution along ...

Scientists have spent decades scouring the Martian surface for any signs of life. Now, a photo snapped by NASA 's Curiosity ...

The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and scientific think tank of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), announced today the release of its landmark report, ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Granules made of processed carbonaceous material and oxidized iron—another sign of life’s handiwork—were ... a geobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center. And even though the ...

A Kansas native has officially recovered from an extended stay in space earlier this year.Colonel Nick Hague launched aboard ...

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

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

Georgia Tech scientists have uncovered evidence that a mountain on the rim of Jezero Crater—where NASA's Perseverance Rover ...

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps photographing a maze — but it's not on Mars. Learn how this intricate pattern helps calibrate SHERLOC, the rover’s high-tech tool for detecting signs of ancient life.