Researchers have made a startling discovery: rocks are generating “dark oxygen” in an area being explored for deep-sea mining.

The find has excited scientists, but other explanations are possible.

The find has excited scientists, but other explanations are possible.

A rocky planet with a large moon may have good potential to host life, given that the moon controls essential aspects for life on Earth.

It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.

The Perseverance rover has arrived at what’s thought to be an ancient shoreline on Mars.

There’s anxiety among space scientists following Nasa’s decision to rethink sample return mission from Mars.

Perhaps life is more common in the universe that we think.

If life exists on moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter, instruments headed there in the fall may just need a tiny ice grain to find it.

The Solar System could be awash with oceans, not on the surface but hidden inside the most surprising bodies