An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted 'giant kidney bean' looking frozen sand dunes on Mars that could help ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

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Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

In a way, the authoritarian excesses of the Earth-based regime known as the Mandate in my novel Alien Clay are as much a thought experiment as the bizarre life of Kiln, the planet on which the ...

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers say. The initial discovery confounded marine scientists. It was previously accepted ...

In searching for life on other planets, including on planets orbiting ... Looking at exoplanets for signs of life is being done using our telescopes, on the ground and in space.

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...