New research has highlighted a place on Mars where we could still potentially find primitive alien life forms.
There are rumors that the future of NASA's Space Launch System could be under threat.
Scientists were amazed to discover microbial life in samples that had been returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu.
Our universe would seem to be perfectly tuned to support life, but some scientists argue that this is not the case.
The clandestine vehicle has been in space for almost a year on its latest mysterious mission.
Known as Skynet-1A, the satellite was launched in 1969 just a short time after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
The late planetary scientist, astronomer, author and science communicator would have been 90 today.
Scientists now believe that a small moon orbiting Uranus may be capable of harboring primitive alien life forms.
The signal had been sent as part of an exercise to see how we would fare if a genuine alien signal was ever picked up.
The comet comes from an enigmatic and colossal cloud of planetesimals that surrounds our solar system.
It appears as though the first astronauts to set foot on the Moon in over 50 years will be doing so in style.
The spacecraft will be trying to answer some of the most critical questions about Europa and its subsurface ocean.
NASA recently featured this photograph, which shows a strange face-like formation, on its website.
A new study has highlighted the potential for finding habitable extrasolar worlds around F-type stars.
The faster you can get a crew to Mars, the better - but conventional propulsion systems may not be up to the task.
After covering 20 miles across the Martian surface, it is perhaps no surprise that the rover has taken a few dints.
In an unexpected discovery, it turns out that lockdown actually had a measurable impact on the lunar surface.
The age of huge, expensive satellites is giving way to the age of small, cheap satellites that can be launched en masse.
It is perhaps ironic that Earth's deadliest weapons of mass destruction could potentially save us all from catastrophe.
Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.