The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightened after passing the Sun, with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warning it could be a hostile alien spacecraft whilst NASA's SPHEREx telescope shows nor ...

The public could be frightened or skeptical. A lot depends on how scientists announce it—if they ever find life in space.

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. BRUSSELS — NATO said on Wednesday it had launched a ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

Thirty years ago, a distinguished group held its first formal meeting here in Las Vegas to discuss how they might approach ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

While the Trump administration is defunding scientific research and imposing ideological demands on universities, the defenders of this repression are calling for even worse attacks against higher e ...

From ‘Blade Runner’ to ‘Alien’, these sci-fi classics deliver worldbuilding tension and ideas that define everything the genre promises.