Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

Scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown bacterial species living inside NASA’s ultra-sterile spacecraft assembly ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...