On March 10, 2000, Disney's big-budget sci-fi film Mission to Mars premiered in theaters, with the movie studio hoping for a super successful blockbuster. Unfortunately, the movie ...

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

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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 ...

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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

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

For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing a Martian mountain, reading the planet’s ancient history layer by layer. Now, a discovery of web-like rock for ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...