The next major search for extraterrestrial intelligence might involve putting Moon dust under a microscope rather than pointing a radio telescope toward the stars. A new study led by SETI Institute ...

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010. The shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower ...

A new study proposes searching the moon for remnants of ancient extraterrestrial technology. Researchers suggest the moon's surface could preserve microscopic "technosignatures" left by alien ...

Natural sorting of ocean salts in icy vents on Saturn’s moon could aid the search for life, researchers report. With a global ocean of liquid water below a thick crust of ice, Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...