NASA researchers collected Antarctic seawater to test how cryovolcanic eruptions may alter biosignatures, guiding life-detection strategies for Europa and Enceladus missions.

This is one of the most ambitious space exploration plans on record.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected an electrical circuit linking Saturn to its small moon Enceladus, revealing an invisible electromagnetic structure that stretches across hundreds of thousands of ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

Future missions to Mars may want to dig into ice rather than rock. Scientists say ancient microbes, or traces of them, could be locked inside Martian ...

Hours after saying that Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information with Americans when he said ...

At the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, far from research stations and tourist routes, a small team collected seawater in ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...