For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

What NASA found on Titan shocked scientists and changed how researchers viewed moons in deep space. Beneath layers of dense ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has come across the best proof that there was once life on Mars. The discovery from a rock sample Curiosity drilled in 2020 possessed the largest variety of organic molecules ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to ...

3I/ATLAS is not just another comet drifting by. This object likely formed around another star, may be older than our Sun, and ...

The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments.

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

In April 2026, the SETI Institute’s work spanned both scientific research and broader questions about how discoveries are ...