Whenever Star Trek introduces a new species, there's always a risk of plot holes forming. For instance, I remember when ...

Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive.

The season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds canonizes Martians in Star Trek lore, something planned for the classic show sixty years ago. In the Star Trek universe, Earth, as in reality, is ...

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A Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio experiment has passed a critical NASA review, ...

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"Viking more likely than not found autotrophic microbial life on Mars, roughly 1,000 cells per gram." When you purchase ...

Credit: NASA Titan’s resources could one day make Saturn’s largest moon a major outpost for deep space exploration. Titan is ...

As humanity prepares for a new era of space exploration, NASA and other space agencies are planning ambitious missions to Mars and other distant worlds that aim to bring back valuable rock, soil and ...

In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold's report of strange objects over Mount Rainier and a fateful media misquote created the 'flying saucer' and reshaped UFO history.

Steven Spielberg has defined alien cinema for decades. ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’, and ‘War of the Worlds’ all carry his fingerprints. But the genre has never ...

It’s no secret that Elon Musk wants people to live in space. When he founded SpaceX in 2002, it was with the stated goal of “making life multiplanetary.” Since then, the company diversified by ...