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 thing.…
It looks like NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private deep-space…
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 happening…
For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James Webb…
It has been a week since the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was shut down, evacuated, and visited…
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The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is holding a series of hearings leading up to another…
By searching for the telltale, periodic dimming of light from distant stars, astronomers can spot orbiting exoplanets…
The Moon today is not habitable. It’s covered in potentially killer dust and seemingly dry as a bone. But though it…
Our limited human eyesight can really constrain our understanding of the universe. We can see only a thin swath of…
To date, scientists have catalogued more than 3,500 exoplanets, some of which may even be capable of fostering life.…
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has released the first images from its new orbit, taken on April 15 from 400 kilometers…
Let’s say your house is on fire, or overrun by a gang of psychotic raccoons. You don’t hesitate—you take out your…
Researchers at the University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for…
In April, NASA Chief scientist Ellen Stofan predicted we would “have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a…
It’s become a legend of the space age. The brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi, during a lunchtime conversation at Los…
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