From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Drop onto dangerously reactive alien planets where every pixel is physically simulated. Craft wild guns and abilities that ...

SETI scientists have detected signals that don’t behave like anything found in nature — narrowband, repeating, and drifting ...

There are huge gaps in our knowledge of how to survive space. A lab in north east England is trying to change that.

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

John was abandoned as a newborn and grew up with no knowledge of where he came from. Then one Christmas that changed.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

The Sverris Saga, written in the 12th century, describes King Sverre’s rise to power and his conflict with the Baglers. The ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

Eschewing some of the genre's most out-there tropes and concepts, sci-fi movies like Children of Men and Arrival instead opt ...