The scientific wonderers at What If explore the icy oceans of a Jovian moon to see how finding alien microbes would change ...
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most unique places in the solar system, featuring lakes and rivers made of liquid methane instead of water. Despite its freezing temperatures, its thick ...
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...
The $20 billion project will span seven years and aims to establish American space superiority, though opponents question spending billions while 10 million Americans could lose health insurance.
In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints—both literally ...
Scientists are turning human waste into fertiliser for Moon and Mars farming, transforming toxic space dust into soil, but ...
A strange purple object aboard the ISS sparked alien fears online, but NASA revealed it was a potato experiment. It shows how ...
A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...
If the idea of lunar hummus seems far-fetched, think again. Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated lunar soil, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe. But now, researchers at the SETI ...
For 20 years, NASA’s ALaMO Observatory has tracked meteors and lunar impacts, providing continuous data on space hazards and ...
A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit cultivated the unusual specimen during a microgravity gardening experiment, ...