Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is one of the last places we think about when considering the potential for…

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Scientists have discovered nitrogen- and oxygen- containing organic molecules in ice grains blown out by Saturn’s…

Slightly over half of people in the UK believe that if the Earth received communications from an extraterrestrial,…

A mission to sample Jupiter’s moon Europa for signs of life will move into its final design and construction phase,…

Amid renewed interest in UFOs following a series of articles detailing strange sightings by U.S. military pilots—and …

Donald Trump mumbled his way through a response to a softball question on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in an…

The U.S. Navy is “drafting new guidelines” for personnel to report sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, Politi…

How did life first start? Scientists hoping to answer that question are recreating the conditions of early Earth’s…

Scientists have found the bodies of tardigrades, algae, diatoms, and small crustaceans in a body of water buried…

When it comes to landing a robot on another planet, perhaps the most important question is where to put the dang…

It looks like NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private…

On October 19, 2017, a strange object from outside the Solar System whizzed by the Earth, exciting scientists and…

Between an Apple event, the midterms, and a global technology worker walkout—in addition to everything else…

For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James…

It has been a week since the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was shut down, evacuated, and…

This is how it happens when extraterrestrials make contact with Earth.

August 2018 rolled in with a bang, literally, as explosions rocked Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday during a speech by…

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is holding a series of hearings leading up to another…

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