Why is NASA so worried about space microbes? How much damage could an extra-terrestrial microorganism do here on Earth? And ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, has long been a focal point of fascination for scientists and space enthusiasts alike.

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

SAN DIEGO — The toxic plume from the Tijuana River can be seen from outer space. An image from NASA shows the plume flowing off south of Imperial Beach and spreading into the Pacific Ocean. NASA's ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them are ...

Earlier this year, NASA’s Dawn mission finally entered into Ceres’ orbit. Since then, the dwarf planet has offered nothing but mysteries, the latest of which is a three-mile-high pyramid on Ceres’ ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...