"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Plans to retrieve Marian rocks that may contain signs of extraterrestrial life appear to have been abandoned by the US ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

From a celebration of a historic artist-in-residence program to photography that explores space and the queer experience, ...