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 ...

Analysis - Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park ...

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

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

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

Not every great science fiction movie starts a franchise or gets a sequel, and we've been waiting multiple decades for some ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the Arctic is at the risk of an invasion of non-native ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

A recent study published in NeoBiota indicates that thousands of non-native plant species could now find suitable conditions ...

Thousands of alien species could invade the Arctic, warns a new study. Warmer temperatures and more tourists make it easier ...

Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s mysterious alien film, “Disclosure Day,” during Super Bowl Sunday. The science-fiction movie stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, ...