NASA's Jared Isaacman will lead a news conference today (June 30) to provide the latest update on the ambitious plan to build ...

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

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Hosts from NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about an exoplanet with pink, salty clouds, the surprising social structure of ancient human relatives and the origins of laughter.

Lunar architecture isn’t just an engineering challenge. At its heart, it is about understanding human experience at the ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified ...

Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! These baseball-sized bots accompanied Japan's first successful lunar lander.

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Are humans alone in the universe? The answer is more complicated than science fiction might suggest. Scientists have discovered billions upon billions of potentially habitable planets. But if life is ...

University of Florida researchers are exploring how lasers could help astronauts build structures on the moon using materials already available there, including lunar soil transformed into glass. The ...