If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to recognize biology may no longer be enough. When you purchase through links on our ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

NASA is set to launch the Pandora space telescope on January 11 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. The mission ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Among her most ominous forecasts was a warning that World War III would erupt in 2026 — a prediction made more unsettling by ...