Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But ...

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From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it ...