What's next for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing success? By Mike Wall published 19 February 21 Great photos are just around the corner, but it'll likely be a few months before Perseverance really starts sinking its teeth into its science work.
Touchdown! NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars to begin hunt for signs of ancient life By Mike Wall published 18 February 21 The car-sized Perseverance, the most advanced robot ever sent to the Red Planet, aced its "seven minutes of terror" touchdown this afternoon (Feb. 18).
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is about to land in Jezero Crater. Here's what we know about the place. By Elizabeth Howell published 17 February 21 Jezero Crater may be the proving ground in our search for Martian life.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance landing: Everything you need to know By Mike Wall published 15 February 21 NASA's next Mars rover is about to touch down! See Space.com's complete coverage of the Feb. 18 landing of the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance.
Potentially habitable exoplanet candidate spotted around Alpha Centauri A in Earth's backyard By Mike Wall published 10 February 21 The nearest solar system to our own may actually host two potentially life-supporting planets as a new candidate emerges around Alpha Centauri A, a new study reports.
We don't really understand the habitable zones of alien planets By Paul Sutter published 10 February 21 It turns out we don't really understand habitable zones.
Aliens could be sucking energy from black holes. That may be how we'll find them. By Tom Metcalfe published 31 January 21
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of its journey to Red Planet By Mike Wall published 28 January 21 The car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.
Prebiotic ingredients for life found around young star By Paul Sutter published 27 January 21 Where did the ingredients for life on Earth come from? A team of astronomers has found a crucial new link: the observation of essential "prebiotic" molecules around a still-forming star.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in less than a month! By Mike Wall published 21 January 21 The car-size Perseverance rover, the core of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, will land Feb. 18, kicking off a new era of Red Planet exploration.
CIA releases entire collection of UFO-related documents to truth-seeking website By Brandon Specktor published 14 January 21 The CIA just turned over 2,700 pages of UFO-related material to The Black Vault, a free repository of UFO records online.
An alien machine already visited us, Harvard astrophysicist still contends By Rafi Letzter published 9 January 21 Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited a debate about whether alien life can explain an object that visited the solar system in 2017 in a scathing new book.
Blue UFO soars over Hawaii before crashing into the sea By Laura Geggel published 6 January 21 Multiple people saw a strange blue light whiz over Oahu, Hawaii.
Planetary protection needs more than just NASA, White House plan says By Meghan Bartels published 4 January 21 The White House has laid out a plan for overhauling the federal government's planetary-protection rules, which work to prevent contamination between Earth and other potentially habitable worlds.
Earth's atmosphere is full of microbes. Could they help us find life on other worlds? By Meghan Bartels published 4 January 21 If you're feeling lonely, take solace in remembering that there are countless tiny living things floating tens of thousands of feet above your head.
Here's what we learned about aliens in 2020 By Brandon Specktor published 30 December 20 From the best places to find them to what they might breathe, here are the newest clues we discovered about alien life.
I'm an astronomer and I think aliens may be out there — but UFO sightings aren't persuasive By Chrisy Impey published 29 December 20 If intelligent aliens visit the Earth, it would be one of the most profound events in human history.
Alien hunters detect mystery signal coming from the closest star system By Rafi Letzter published 21 December 20 Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have reportedly detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun.
On Mars, internal heat may have powered habitable hotspots long ago By Mike Wall published 2 December 20 The Martian underground may have been habitable billions of years ago even if the planet's surface was a dry, frigid wasteland.
Bringing Mars samples to Earth could cost an extra $1 billion, but NASA should totally do it, experts say By Meghan Bartels published 16 November 20 Holding a pristine piece of Mars in a lab on Earth is among the most ambitious dreams of planetary scientists, and NASA and its European counterpart want to make the dream a reality.
