Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

Pluribus is a coldly intelligent character study about individualism and the cost of remaining human when the apocalypse arrives.

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter. When you purchase through links on ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a shocking secret hidden in the clouds of an exoplanet 124 light years away. K2 18b is a "Hycean" world, a super Earth with a global ocean under a thick ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue Northwest Sinai Forum presentation Sunday. His talk gathered what PNW Sinai Forum ...

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 ...

Imagine that you’re an astronomer conducting a radio survey of the heavens. Maybe you’re searching for pulsars, or radio galaxies, or just mapping neutral hydrogen. Then, out of nowhere, you detect a ...

The moon once dismissed as the solar system’s most hostile environment may now sit directly in the path of an object that defies conventional explanation. Two decades of scientific certainty just ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

When it comes to science fiction, it can be challenging to find material that doesn't include aliens in one form or another. Whether they live in the deep blue sea, the far reaches of the galaxy, or ...