The new film probes the possibility of alien life – here's how the science of Project Hail Mary stacks up.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

But the phrase genetic supremacist is very apt. A strange part of the strange life of Jeffrey Epstein was his obsession with ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

For decades, insiders and whistleblowers have claimed that beneath the Archuleta Mesa in New Mexico lies a multi-level facility where humans and non-human entities work side by side. Some allege a ...