We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life. The problem is not finding the star.

Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it has begun final preparations ...

The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the ...