Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...

Radiolysis May Facilitate Underground Life of Mars, Claim Researchers Astronauts and space scientists often look out for ...

A recent investigation by researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi suggests that cosmic rays—high-energy particles that travel through ...

Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. New research reveals that when these rays interact ...

A new study from NYU Abu Dhabi has found that high-energy particles from space, known as cosmic rays, could create the energy ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has formally kicked off its first high-altitude analogue mission, Human Outer ...

The camera moves slowly over a surface that seems deserted and silent. There is no visible life, only dusty terrain ...

We might be looking for life on Mars in the wrong place, scientists suggest. Extraterrestrial life is more likely to be lurking in Mars' ice than on its rocky surface, according to a new paper in ...

The hopes of finding life on Mars took a new turn in 1996. In August, a team of scientists from NASA and Stanford University announced that a Mars meteorite found in the Allan Hills of Antarctica ...