While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered critical new samples, including a series of compounds planetary scientists consider building blocks for the origin of life on Earth ...

Here's why these new results are so encouraging for scientists.

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

Mars is home to a canyon so vast it makes Earth’s largest formations look small. Using its powerful HiRISE camera, NASA captured details deep inside this massive scar known as Valles Marineris. What ...

A discussion of viral claims involving NASA and alleged UFO-related cover-up theories, focusing on fact-checking, sources, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has come across the best proof that there was once life on Mars. The discovery from a rock sample Curiosity drilled in 2020 possessed the largest variety of organic molecules ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

In April 2026, the SETI Institute’s work spanned both scientific research and broader questions about how discoveries are ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

SpaceX IPO sparks ETF rush with 9 space funds filed or launched in three months as Wall Street races for retail flows.