From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL New evidence from NASA, published in the journal Nature, shows that the Martian surface might be even less ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

Mars. From forming black holes to phantom dark energy, discover the cosmic mysteries astronomers uncovered last year.

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for subtle traces of ancient microbes, but one of its most ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

So, to create a must-read story list for you, we asked our staff to select their favorite pieces of 2025. Alas, while you're ...