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

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

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

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

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

Unlike in recent tests, SpaceX’s ninth Starship survived launch, but a fuel tank leak meant it lost control before it could ...

The team studying these sounds found that Mars' thin air, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, makes sound waves behave ...

As for today, the environments on Mars that could potentially support life are few and far between, and it's all about ...

“We see this on Earth—although it’s very difficult to study directly … Could something similar be happening in the subsurface of Mars?” If microbes are there, they’re buried too deeply ...

A small team of planetary scientists, astrophysicists and space flight researchers affiliated with several institutions in ...

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