For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

On the cracked ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a sprawling pattern of dark lines has taken on an unsettling nickname: a “demon” ...

The past year won't be remembered as one that marked a record of important space missions, but one when the foundations for ...

The "Transformers" franchise spans across cartoons, comics, video games, and a large portion of Michael Bay's filmography. We ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

California is a great place for spelunking -- aka exploring caves. While you might think one cave is like another, each one ...

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 ...

Why Hollywood has yet to adapt these sci-fi masterpieces remains a mystery. Here are seven books that would make great movies ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...