A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

It may not breathe, eat, or sleep. It may not reproduce in any ordinary sense. It may not have a face, a voice, or a body shaped by evolution. It may be a machine. This is not a wild idea – it follows ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All surfaces are scrubbed at scalding temperatures and soaked in disinfectant.

Images of 3I/ATLAS through 170 second exposures by the WFC3 UVIS (F350LP) camera of the Hubble Space Telescope, processed through the Larson-Sekanina rotation gradient filter, show a double jet ...

You can take the human away from Earth, but you can’t take the Earth away from the human (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Let’s face it – you’ve thought about it at least once. Maybe twice. Maybe ...

The Holocaust happened. George Washington was the first president of the United States. Vaccines do not cause autism. Climate change is real. The earth is round. There is no life on the moon. The 2020 ...

On 16 December 2017, The New York Times began publishing a series of investigative reports confirming what conspiracy theorists had long believed. There was a ‘secret programme’ hidden within the US ...