Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Aerospace engineers at the University of Illinois have published new findings showing that nitrogen-rich atmospheres, like ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

Then there’s the science. Project Hail Mary is based on Andy Weir’s ‘hard sci-fi’ book of the same name, published in 2021, ...

The Ryan Gosling-led Project Hail Mary does, in many ways, feel like a lowercase Interstellar: a fantastically good time at ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Heat shields keep incoming spacecraft from burning up in planetary atmospheres. Now we're learning that different atmospheres ...

(RNS) — Starseeds say they’re not from this planet. Online, they’re sharing mythologies and rituals that, for some, are ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

A 'space potato' grown aboard the ISS went viral for its alien look, but NASA astronaut Don Pettit says it highlights future ...