NASA announced two landmark projects: SR-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-powered spacecraft bound for Mars, and a modified Boeing 777 as its most advanced airborne Earth science lab. SR-1 Freedom will ...

Organic compounds found in a Martian crater contain building blocks of life, according to a new study.

Some Earth-based microbes may be tougher than expected, raising new questions about survival beyond our planet.

According to a new study of organisms found living in NASA cleanrooms even after decontamination, a fungus called Aspergillus ...

Mars is half the size of Earth, with one-tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point in its orbit is over 33 million miles away. Yet new research highlights the extraordinary influence ...

How long did Mars have habitable conditions for life? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets hopes to address as a team of scientists from New York ...

There is a lot of evidence from orbiting satellites and surface rovers indicating that liquid water was present long ago on ...

This collection of organic molecules once again increases the prospect that Mars offered a home for life in the ancient past,” the mission’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasav ...