The mission is a major step in India's preparation for future human spaceflight and interplanetary exploration, including ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established the Himalayan Outpost for Planetary Exploration (HOPE) in ...

ISRO’s HOPE station in Ladakh will serve as a testing ground for future Moon and Mars missions by simulating extreme ...

“Mars is our memory,” said Dr. Cabrol, who is director of the SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, near Palo Alto, Calif.

A new study from NYU Abu Dhabi has found that high-energy particles from space, known as cosmic rays, could create the energy ...

An ancient rock discovered on Mars, using equipment partially developed in New Mexico, could answer key questions scientists have about the possibility of past life on the planet. But the sample could ...

If there is life on Mars - life that actually developed there, rather than hitching a ride from Earth - it will likely be found some distance underground. There, microbes would produce methane as ...

Mars in Virgo can bring a meticulous yet aggressive focus on territories, borders, and national integrity. This, combined ...

How life arose on Earth remains a mystery, though many theories have been proposed. Now a new study by Japanese scientists has reinvigorated the discussion around panspermia: The idea that life ...

If everything goes as planned on Thursday, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its way to search for signs of past life on the Red Planet.