From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

The 3I/ATLAS threw off over 13.5 million metric tons of water in the month after perihelion, a plume so large that it caused ...

Humanity experiences unprecedented peace and happiness in Apple TV+’s ‘Pluribus,’ after an alien virus arrives in the form of ...

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

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

While the series finale of "Stranger Things" wrapped up many of the show's narrative threads, some aspects of the plot still ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

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

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...