A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

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Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

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Scientists have found a hidden biosphere stretching miles beneath Earth’s surface and as deep as 6 miles below the seafloor.

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, ...

Exactly where the comet 3I/ATLAS came from within the Milky Way remains a mystery.

Author Robert Dresner announces the release of The Astral Imperative, a thought-provoking science fiction series that explores the dynamics of human evolution, the uncanny impact of AI, and the outer ...

A comet screaming in from another star system carried alien ice ratios never seen before. What scientists found inside its spinning nucleus is reshaping how we picture worlds beyond our sun.

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.