Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

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

Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

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 ...

Amirali Aghazadeh receives funding from Georgia Tech. When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

In late November, Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five other Congressmen who have served in the military participated in a 90-second ...

We live in an age where taking photographs is easier than ever. The numbers are honestly wild—research suggests roughly 1.8 ...