Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has become the subject of study by NASA, which has already launched a mission through its helicopter Dragonfly. For the moment, what they describe on ...

The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with ...

Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes. Residing in the planet’s briny underworld ...

As for today, the environments on Mars that could potentially support life are few and far between, and it's all about ...

Researchers from China have discovered a new bacterial species, Niallia tiangongensis, on the Tiangong Space Station, ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

In an unexpected twist, NASA scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—right inside one of the ...

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

Scientists think these bacteria could be the key to growing food on Mars. A few weeks back, it was announced that novel organisms were discovered in cleanrooms where work on NASA space missions is ...