Are we all descendants of these 'Mars colonists'? The literature from the past decade is even more interesting, with ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed ...

New research suggests the interior of Mars is far messier than scientists once believed. Instead of neat, layered structures, ...

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

Mars may have released sulfur gases that trapped heat, shaped the climate, and created conditions for ancient life.

These meteorites carried traces from the volcanic era, and the team repeatedly simulated the early Martian climate ...

Billions of years ago, Mars may not have been the frozen desert we see today. New simulations suggest that volcanic eruptions pumped out reactive sulfur gases, creating greenhouse effects strong ...

As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...