What if humanity’s next giant leap isn’t just a dream, but a countdown already in motion? Using current space agency plans, technological trends, and projected development timelines, this scenario ...

A nonprofit biotech start-up says it has created what it calls the first “microbe for Mars,” a modified bacterium designed to turn Martian resources into useful materials. The organism, sPL.001, is ...

Learn more about the Perseverance Rover as it traverses the Martian landscape looking for signs of extinct life.

American space agency NASA announced the winners of the Mars to Table competition meant to create food systems for Mars.

The new push loosens U.S. regulations for sterilizing spacecraft bound for the Red Planet, and calls for modernizing the ...

Space is a frontier where we could do things differently, yet we are replicating the same patterns of commerce and control.

Here's what to know about the parasite known as "Beaver Fever." ...

Scientists found that organic molecules in Jezero Crater on Mars are similar to both biological and non-biological organic matter on Earth.

INDIANAPOLIS (Mirror Indy)–When Faith Evans went to sign up for her first semester at IU Indianapolis, one class in particular caught her eye. Cornerstone, a new class on reading and writing that ...

Has life ever existed on Mars? And, even more intriguingly, could there still be traces of it today? This is one of astronomy's biggest unsolved questions, and, within a few years, we could be closer ...

Extreme temperatures, intense solar radiation, no air to speak of — the surface of the moon has long been considered too hostile for life to hang on. Then an Israeli probe, Beresheet, crashed on the ...

The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...