In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very ...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our ...

Are we alone in the universe? The astrophysicist doesn’t think so Taylor Hill/WireImage; Niko Tavernise/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks to PEOPLE at the June 8 ...

Steven Spielberg has shut down conspiracy theories that his new UFO blockbuster Disclosure Day was designed to prepare the public for the revelation of extraterrestrial life. For decades, one of the ...

June 3, 2026, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute searched for technological signals from 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our Solar System. Using the Allen ...

For decades, humanity has searched the cosmos for proof that we are not alone. Telescopes scanned distant planets. Rovers explored dusty alien landscapes. Scientists developed instruments capable of ...

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