On April 11, 1960, astronomers began the first scientific experiment that would search for extraterrestrial life. Known as ...

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human ...

As the historic lunar flyby comes to a close, space companies and nations around the world are also shooting for the moon.

Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous ...

In a 2019 AP-NORC poll, about half of Americans said they’d take a chance to orbit the Earth, with 41% saying they’d travel ...

Beyond moon photos, NASA's AVATAR experiment on Artemis II uses astronaut blood samples on chips to study and solve space's ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Researchers once struggled to understand unconventional solutions developed by artificial intelligence. A new approach leads to faster and better understanding. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...