The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

NASA just made a discovery that could change everything: an underground ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. With the potential ...

A mysterious visitor from another solar system could be an alien spacecraft, according to a leading Harvard astronomer.

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Susan Worlton only knew her sisters from her mother’s stories and the few pictures that remain. In a courtroom on Friday, ...

Two men have been sentenced for their roles in the deaths of 53 migrants being smuggled inside a tractor trailer in southwest ...

Abiola v. Abubakar exemplifies how the quest for justice can transcend national borders when domestic remedies are ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...