A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered an 'alien' material inside a massive crater on Earth, sparking new questions about how life may have first emerged on our planet.

Science fiction has thrived in literature over the last half a century, thanks to masterpieces like Hyperion and The ...

By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may someday talk to – alien life.

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From farming and walking sims to space trucking, you can live that cozy life… but in space!

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One of the most fantastical claims SpaceX is making during the countdown to its IPO is that it is helping create one of the most advanced civilizations in the Milky Way.

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wi ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with ...