Mission to investigate whether tiny organisms live in ocean volcanoes on icy Enceladus planned by European Space Agency ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a strange, star-shaped scar has become an unlikely focal point in the search ...

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to hunt for alien life on the surface of one of Saturn’s moons. Scientists want to send a probe to the icy world of Enceladus, which contains a ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

But now, they're planning to build telescopes on the far side of the Moon. These instruments will probe one of the last unexplored windows on the Universe. Here, astronomers hope to get a glimpse of ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

In the early hours of Christmas morning, 'Santa', better known as the International Space Station(ISS), will pass directly ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

The past year won't be remembered as one that marked a record of important space missions, but one when the foundations for ...