Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian soil ...

Researchers exposed two lichen species to Mars-like atmospheric conditions for five hours—and one performed impressively.

Both moons are made mostly from rock and iron and may have once been asteroids that got captured by Mars' gravitational pull. NASA scientists think life may have once been plentiful on Mars ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...