Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

A new study posits that dark streaks originally believed to be signs of water on Mars' surface might not be that at all.

In an unexpected twist, NASA scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—right inside one of the ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.