Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

A new study posits that dark streaks originally believed to be signs of water on Mars' surface might not be that at all.

NASA’s boldest plan yet to find alien life in our solar system targets the most unlikely place: Venus. With its scorching ...

In an unexpected twist, NASA scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—right inside one of the ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

But the latest research tells a different story. Using machine learning and one of the most comprehensive datasets ever ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved ...