Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

Why is Northern England the perfect place for Mars research? I was invited by STFC to visit the lab 1km under the surface of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

Which is exactly why so many space games have a heavy emphasis on doing just that. Sometimes the colony is the key focus of the experience, while other games include colony management as one smaller ...

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

Manhattan Book Group proudly announces that “ Tavern on the Edge of Time, Book Three of the Second Skin Sequence ” by Peter Darrach, has been awarded Gold in the 2026 Manhattan Book Awards. The honor ...