Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

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The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Freshly uncovered evidence collected by a NASA rover tasked with exploring Mars has skyrocketed the possibility of life existing on other planets, RadarOnline.com can reveal. The Mars rover ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

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

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...