Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...