The United States is stepping back from the most direct test yet of possible alien biology on Mars just as new telescopes and ...

NASA has quietly hit pause on what it billed as its first dedicated hunt for alien biosignatures, reacting to fresh data that ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

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

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

The Crew-11 spaceflyers — NASA's Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui of Japan and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov — splashed ...

The proliferated architecture satellites are built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. All of them have reached orbit aboard ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...