Life and Universe

Mars rover Curiosity is using its high-resolution cameras, sensors, drill and laser to search for habitability in the Red Planet

A unique new project is asking people around the world with an internet connection to help beam messages into outer space in an attempt to make our presence in the universe known to intelligent alien life out there.

A new iPad app has been developed, which allows people to click telescope images of celestial objects from the comfort of their couch. The app created by the online Slooh Space Camera allows people to command and control their robotic network of space cameras.

NASA's Kepler telescope has identified 503 new potential alien planets, some of which may even be habitable. The latest finding brings Kepler's tally of exoplanet candidates to 3,216, according to reports.

An international team of scientists (ASTRON) have used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to set a new distance accuracy record, pegging a pulsar called PSR J2222-0137 at 871.4 light-years from Earth.

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said that she willing to make a one-way trip to Mars. The 76-year old called it her "favourite planet", reports News.com.au.

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder has suggested that a chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen “food” to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents.

An international team of exoplanet hunters is developing a new technology that would dramatically improve the odds of discovering planets with conditions suitable for life

Scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered that the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts

MIT researchers, including an Indian origin scientist, have made a breakthrough that may lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation. Scientists trying to exploit the ability of liver to grow in hopes of producing artificial liver tissue for transplantation have repeatedly been stymied.