In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

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

Whether a science-fiction fable with a relevant message about society or a morality play with a devious twist, The Twilight ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

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