Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

Both the original and new architecture for the program include multiple spacecraft that would be used to land on Mars and ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T ... so that'd likely be the case on other worlds if the life that exists there is similar to life as we know it. "These arid, dry planets, with significantly less ...

Just when we thought we knew almost everything about planet Earth, a discovery made by NASA has proven otherwise. Despite the fact that we live on Earth, people still don’t fully understand a large ...

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present ... only ways to determine whether life ever ...

Both the original and new architecture for the program include multiple spacecraft that would be used to land on Mars and ferry the cache back to our planet. In April, NASA asked its various ...

NASA has revealed two new strategies to bring back rock and dust samples from Mars collected by Perseverance rover. The aim ...

in collaboration with scientists at Nasa, will aim to understand whether the same process could allow microscopic life to thrive beneath oceans that are on other planets and moons. "If there's ...

They went on to say, 'The evolution of life in space may take a completely different path than on Earth, so there may be habitats other than traditionally habitable planets orbiting stars where ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...