NASA has made a groundbreaking discovery: planets that may be more habitable than Earth. These newly identified worlds, found using advanced space exploration techniques, possess conditions that could ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

No injuries or deaths are immediately reported, but officials say an unknown number of people are unaccounted for ...

So far, the only life we know of is right here on planet Earth. But NASA is looking for signs of life in our solar system and on some of the the thousands of planets we've discovered beyond it, on ...