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

Bad news for those hoping interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft as technosignature search turns up empty.

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

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

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

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

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

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.