"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, providing a model for searching for life in similar structures on Mars. A comprehensive study of lava tubes—caves formed by c ...

Recent findings from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are shaking up our understanding of life’s ...

From solar winds to high radiation, space is brutal. But Earth and Mars share uncanny traits that spark questions about ...

Two NASA astronauts face an extended stay aboard the ISS. Their Boeing Starliner encountered problems. A SpaceX rescue ...

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne’s shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of ...

Scientists estimate a 27% chance of intelligent alien life beyond our galaxy using a new model. The research integrates the ...

The future of humanity is written, one of the novel's key characters, Shaun, tells Pietro, “with the gilded pens of ...

This Thanksgiving, as we navigate a new chapter in our nation’s history, the staff and board of Beyond Pesticides are honored ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

The word alien comes from the Latin word 'aliēnus', which means "not one's own, of others, foreign, strange". It is derived ...

The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility’s ...