Missouri’s been hiding its own alien landscape this whole time, and it costs exactly zero dollars to visit Elephant Rocks State Park in Belleview. When billion-year-old granite decides to show off, ...

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may ...

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 ...

New Scans of a Martian Meteorite That Landed on Earth Strengthen ‘Alien Life’ Claims ...

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

Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

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