"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

Flagship funding and concerns about cost overruns have ebbed and flowed at NASA for decades — and JPL’s future along with it. In the 1980s, JPL was barely clinging to life as the Reagan ...

Scientists hope the spacewalk will tell them if future experiments on Mars are at risk of contamination from bacteria humans ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — but NASA has nothing to say about it, even though the research was conducted using ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

R esearchers studying archival radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission have uncovered compelling signs that tectonic activity could still be shaping the surface of Venus today. The findings ...

Aliens on Mars have not yet been found — but signs that the Red Planet hosted life billions of years ago have, NASA said Thursday. The space agency’s Perseverance rover found a spot-covered ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Scientists believe the moon's water, chemistry and energy could support life. Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA has launched its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon ...

NASA has a bold new plan to help detect signs of life on distant planets. The plan relies heavily on a new telescope system. However, instead of sending the telescope up in one main package ...

NASA's Mars rover has discovered the first 'possible' signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The agency's Perseverance rover spotted a what they described as an arrowhead-shaped' rock with what ...

However, now, a new report suggests that we may need to look further below the surface in our hunt for signs of life on Mars. Mars landscape captured by the Pathfinder lander. Image source ...