During the Apollo missions, NASA astronauts carried out an extraordinary seismic experiment that involved launching explosive charges across the lunar surface. These controlled detonations revealed ...

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to ...

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

Scientists have long believed Saturn’s moon Titan hid a massive underground ocean, but new research suggests something even ...

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

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

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

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has grown a colossal, sunward anti-tail larger than the distance to the moon. Is this an ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.