When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Mars gets its red color from oxidized iron dust, and the oldest myth mistake remains the same: Mars is Roman, while Ares is ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...