Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

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

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When Leonard Nimoy flew to Yellowstone in August 1978 to shoot a scene for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture, " Mammoth Hot ...

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

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

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

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...