China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-2, has been hunting down its target — a so-called quasi-moon — ever since it launched from Earth ...

The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

The Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise is one of the coolest, most nefarious movie monsters ever hatched, with its acid blood, mouths-within-mouths, and diabolical claws. It pretty much ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Does anywhere in the country better represent this era of the American experiment than a self-governing tech-company town ...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is leaving the Canadian Space Agency following his historic Artemis II lunar mission, the ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Steven Spielberg’s credulity makes his latest alien contact film, Disclosure Day, mawkish and old-fashioned rather than ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks are enormous.

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...