Within minutes, clips of the exchange spread across social media, while the dead air became its own meme. One viral post ...

As humankind moves toward establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of whether reproduction is possible in extraterrestrial environments may no longer be merely hypothetical ...

When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon in 1969, they changed the course of human ...

Future missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on ...

NASA officials have previously spoken of the possibility of extraterrestrial life amid scientific uncertainty while ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitable. In their study, ...

Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict a “three-sided pyramid” on ...