Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

The global scientific community, a study says, should prepare for when humanity detects signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in the internet age.

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

A biosignature is any characteristic, element, molecule, substance or feature that serves as evidence for past or present ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...

Red Mars meets bright Spica in the sunset sky this week. Mars will shine close to the blue star Spica at sunset on Sept. 13, but you'll need a clear view of the western horizon to catch the colorful ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.