Thomas Mulligan examines the theory that asteroids could have delivered life’s building blocks to Earth 3.5 billion years ago.

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. Does their ability to resist UV radiation suggest how microbes might ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

A lecture entitled “ENCOUNTER WITH ALIENS FROM STONE-AGE TO SPACE-AGE” will be jointly hosted in Colombo by the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (NASSL) and the Sri Lanka Association for the ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Despite NASA budget cuts, its Mars Perseverance rover still has gas in the tank and could use a years-long Mars sample return ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...