The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

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

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

It's been a busy year if you believe in aliens. We've had 31/Atlas, which a lot of people, including a Harvard scientist, were convinced was an alien spaceship before NASA confirmed it was a comet.

Now in its eighth year, the Universal Composers Initiative seeks to find artists from both traditional and non-conventional ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...

A human skull was found in Coney Island, police say. The gruesome discovery was made Tuesday afternoon. Police said they got a 911 call at around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from a man who had been walking on ...