If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

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

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Luna Labs has selected UNC Greensboro (UNCG) chemistry professor Nicholas Oberlies to lead a NASA-funded project exploring ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s now shifting focus to the Moon — with no less eye-brow raising ideas. Sci-fi readers already know ...

"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the moon," Musk said in a post on social media site X. Musk has often spoken about his vision of colonizing other worlds in our ...

Elon Musk has his eyes set on a “self-growing city on the moon,” which he thinks can become reality in less than a decade. Musk said his company, SpaceX, has shifted focus to establishing a human ...