“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

Researchers have long investigated what type of life exists beyond Earth and how we can find it. A new method focuses on looking for one of the most basic signs of living microbes – movement.

There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

Researchers have been looking for life on Mars for a long time, and they might have found it on one occasion, only to destroy ...

During her spacewalk, she was seen riding the Canadarm2 when the Space Station was flying above London. The robotic arm took ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study says that ancient microbes could have been responsible for Mars’s climate ...