Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.
SEAS, saw people on the slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai’i (Picture: HI-SEAS) Nasa is asking wannabe Martians to spend a ...
A new Mars Rover image captured by NASA's Curiosity mission has reignited debate over whether unusual formations on the Red ...
An image taken by Curiosity last month has sparked claims of a long-lost civilization on the Red Planet after some spotted a ...
Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...
The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.
Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...
A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet K2-18b, most experts do not yet think alien life has probably been found.
By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may someday talk to – alien life.
Space image processing and anomalies specialist Keith Laney wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary. In 2001, while ...