Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Luna Labs has selected UNC Greensboro (UNCG) chemistry professor Nicholas Oberlies to lead a NASA-funded project exploring whether fungi can be grown into building materials for construction on the ...

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV screen and wondering: Could something have lived there once? Now, after ...

Scientists studying lunar samples have finally resolved a decades-long debate about the Moon’s ancient magnetic field.