Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Astronomers discovered the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, taking the tally to 40,155 per NASA (as of the first week of ...

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

A new NASA study of data from its old Cassini mission to Saturn suggests that giant moon Titan may not have a global ocean — ...