The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...

The telescope will capture a three-dimensional map of the universe, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies and over 100 million stars ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

On this week's episode: big bird intelligence, astronauts should jump, sheep and human history, and a tiny great ape.

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

The SPHEREx Mission will Map The Entire Sky In The Infrared Wavelength To Better Understand The History Of The Universe ...

NASA’s newest space ... carbon monoxide and other ingredients necessary for life frozen within the clouds of gas and dust that give rise to planets and stars. In particular, astronomers are ...