Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

Mars has long captured humanity’s imagination, especially given the tantalizing evidence of ancient river valleys and ...

Half toybox, half science project, Kerbal Space Program is the most fun you can have while learning about space. On the ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

The fighter for Truth, Justice and the American Way is back on the big screen. Director James Gunn talks about his ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far different from Earth's.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...