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A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.

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NASA is racing to build a permanent settlement near the lunar south pole. The space agency claims its Moon base will cover ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space ...

The great Space Race of the 1960s spurred a lot of speculation about what space exploration would look like. Here's what the ...

On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy ...