Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

In 2013, The Guardian ran a story headlined “Save Us From Panettone—The Festive Delicacy Nobody Likes.” A few years later, ...

SpaceX needs extra time to process the new spaceship that will finally relieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of their space ...

The goal: protect billions if not trillions of dollars worth of ground-based infrastructure, plus the lives of space tourists ...

Which microbes thrive below us in darkness—in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor—and how do they ...

An asteroid orbiting near our planet that temporarily became our second moon seems to have come from the actual moon, hinting ...

As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least ...

Two Boeing Starliner astronauts, stranded at the International Space Station in June after what was supposed to be a weeklong ...

While these “mirror cells” could have profound medical implications, a new 299-page report warns that a mirror pathogen could ...

If climate modellers’ accumulated knowledge and spiffy models could not explain what had just happened, it might mean that ...

A pair of geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, has created a model that shows Earth's subsurface may hold up ...