We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

While "Star Trek" is pretty consistent compared to a lot of science fiction franchises, a few episodes have turned ...