For generations, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has captivated humanity. On Mars, faint traces in ancient ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms.

Normally, NASA overlaps incoming and outgoing crews aboard the ISS, but with the possibility of evacuating Crew-11 before ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Tough microbes able to survive extreme environments on Earth could be the key to constructing buildings to allow humans to ...