A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.
A provocative study suggests that Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa may not only be hospitable, but that life from Earth could be ...
In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...
A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.
A lot of money and engineering time has been invested in transporting humans to the red planet, including more than $15 billion on Starship development. Musk envisions a flotilla of several thousand ...
Elon Musk, the first private individual worth more than a thousand billion dollars (one trillion), launched SpaceX stock on ...
Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the apple snail, is a pest commonly found in Hong Kong's wetlands and farmlands. It ...
Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...
Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens. The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life Disclosure ...
The results came back inconclusive, which suggests the mummies may not be of this Earth (Image: Shutterstock / videobuzzing) The enigma surrounding Peru's notorious "conehead" mummies has taken a ...