In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

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Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

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Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

A Chinese team has detailed an innovative drone plan for acquiring Martian samples, incorporating measures to mitigate ...

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...