Extraterrestrial Life

This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on Aug. 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in a Martian rock in preparation for the rover's first attempt to collect a sample.

Extraterrestrial Life

‘Holy Grail Of Astrobiology’: Groundbreaking AI-Based Tech Can Confirm Extraterrestrial Life With 90% AccuracySeptember 26, 2023

Planet Mars in the distant past. With the oceans.

Did Mars once have a massive ocean? New study says yes!September 20, 2023

UFOs in night sky over city

UFOs: Here’s how NASA plans to get to the bottom of unexplained sightingsSeptember 20, 2023

A silhouette of a couple looking up at the Milky Way.

Extraterrestrial Life

Scientists create ‘cookbook’ for life, with implications for extraterrestrial existenceSeptember 19, 2023

NASA downplays theory UFO sightings are aliens: ‘No reason to conclude extraterrestrial source’September 14, 2023

Breakthrough Listen uses radio telescopes to monitor emissions from hundreds of star systems near Earth in search of narrowband signals that could be intentional communications or radio leakage from civilizations on other planets

Extraterrestrial Life

New Technique Can Detect Genuine Radio Signals From Alien Civilizations In Our GalaxyAugust 30, 2023

Artist's impression of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa touching down on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005.

Extraterrestrial Life

Table Salt With Cosmic Twist: Asteroid Samples Unveil Water’s Ancient Journey To EarthAugust 29, 2023

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover

Muddy Clue From NASA’s Curiosity Rover Suggests Mars Once Had Flash FloodsAugust 14, 2023

LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an Earth-size world about 90 light-years away.

Planets & Stars

New Earth-Sized Exoplanet Discovered: Could This Volcanic World Hold Secrets to Alien Life?August 8, 2023

Stock image showing silhouettes of satellite dishes or radio antennas against night sky.

Extraterrestrial Life

Mysterious Radio Signals from Distant Galaxy May Hold Clues to Extraterrestrial CommunicationMay 11, 2023