What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Burchett indicated that he’s concerned about a string of scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years, and said, “For the record, I’m not suicidal.” He also said he wants the government to ...

Mission scientists spoke to Nature about the geological features they’re most excited for the crew to observe.

Stepped-up interest in UFOs also is swirling as the United States heads back toward the moon with Wednesday's launch of ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts are now more than halfway to the moon, marking a major milestone in the first crewed deep-space ...

The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon. The three Americans and one Canadian will reach their ...

Your correspondent is a big fan of the Apple TV series “For All Mankind,” a masterpiece of speculative fiction working on the ...

For the first time in more than half a century, humanity is on its way to the moon. NASA's Artemis 2 mission began heading ...

The current human-distance record, set in April 1970 by the three astronauts of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, is 248,655 miles ...

Fossils are the remains of living things like dinosaurs, right? Not necessarily. Fossil meteorites are totally a thing!

Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about NASA's upcoming Artemis launch, space-based data centers and the new sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary.