In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of whether ...

Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have ...

Apple TV's For All Mankind enters the mid-aughts and early 2010s as the Mars colony Happy Valley continues to grow and ...

From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitab ...

Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was rel ...