On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, ...

New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...

NASA researchers collected Antarctic seawater to test how cryovolcanic eruptions may alter biosignatures, guiding life-detection strategies for Europa and Enceladus missions.

This is one of the most ambitious space exploration plans on record.

If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in ...

Hours after saying that Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information with Americans when he said ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

At the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, far from research stations and tourist routes, a small team collected seawater in ...

A recent study uncovers a large network of hidden electromagnetic waves, spanning over 500,000 kilometres, around Enceladus, Saturn's tiny icy moon.

Scientists have discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus creates a massive electromagnetic wake, revealing its major influence ...