From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

Science fiction movies aren't afraid to get heavy when needed, as seen in harrowing classics like The Thing, A Clockwork ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

Alicia Piller's sculptures have been featured in museums across L.A., from Craft Contemporary to the California African ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of ...