Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of ...
From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...
The question “are we alone” remains unanswered, but humanity may get a hint of it in the coming years as technologies are ...
With big names like Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan at the helm, the greatest hard sci-fi films will blow audiences' ...
The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...
In a 2019 AP-NORC poll, about half of Americans said they’d take a chance to orbit the Earth, with 41% saying they’d travel ...
For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...
If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...
Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...
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, ...