When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an ...

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

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Your weekly horoscope is here. In Ancient Rome, Jupiter Optimus Maximus (the biggest and the greatest) was top dog in the hierarchy of deities. As it turns out, the planet named after this ancient ...

Reserachers gathered experimental data exploring whether bacteria could survive a journey between planets via an asteroid ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new study has found, suggesting that microbes could endure interplanetary ...

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a ...

Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their ...