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 ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

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

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

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

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 ...

(NewsNation) — Unusual chemical compounds found on rocks on Mars could be a sign that life once existed on the red planet, though researchers have cautioned that the evidence is far from conclusive.

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

Scientist analyzed molecules found on an ancient rock on the Red Planet ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

Has there ever been life on Mars? Scientists have pondered this question for years, and a recent discovery suggests it just might be possible! NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars ...