You don't need a rocket ship to visit another world. Right here on planet Earth, there are bizarre landscapes that defy ...

A tech-addicted couple goes off-grid just in time to miss a fuzzy alien apocalypse in this sharp sci-fi comedy.

Among the uncounted stars in the universe may be worlds with environments unlike anything we have ever experienced. From crushing gravity and toxic atmospheres to methane seas and eternal storms, ...

When we imagine alien life we often picture something radically different from ourselves. But evolution tends to solve ...

The latest immersive VR experience in Atlanta replicates what it's like to be on the International Space Station.

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Scientists combined lab radiation experiments, mathematical modeling and Curiosity data to ‘rewind the clock’ about 80 million years — the length of time the rock would have ...

Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity learns we are not alone.

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Scientists argue that limiting the search for life strictly to a star’s traditional habitable zone is too restrictive. That ...