The images that recently have gone viral actually date back to 2001.

The planet Mars is the most thoroughly surveyed celestial body aside from Earth itself. Generations of space probes and rovers like Curiosity have collected images and material samples of the red ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...