Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we're just unable to pick them out.

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended ...

Moons orbiting free-floating planets that wander the cosmos without a host star could sustain extraterrestrial life for billions of years ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio ...

You kind of knew that Steven Spielberg believes in aliens. But did you know know? In your heart of hearts? The man behind E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and War of the Worlds is leaving no ...