NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the Perseverance rover inspected named "Cheyava Falls." Credit: NASA Donald Trump’s ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...