Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

For all the talk about settling Mars, the Moon, or other extraterrestrial environments, it’s interesting that no one ever ...

Nigel Kneale's The Quatermass Experiment is a chilling sci-fi exploration about humanity's first contact with life in outer ...

A scientist argued that a Viking lander experiment in 1976 detected microbial life on Mars and urged NASA to repeat the tests before future missions.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Gary Neville has urged Manchester United to "stop experimenting" and appoint a manager who "fits the club's DNA" after Ruben Amorim was sacked on Monday. Former midfielder Darren Fletcher has taken ...

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