University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...
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Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...
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In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...
Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...
A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...