It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it!” is often misattributed to either Mr Spock or  Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy from Star Trek. The ...

The Panama Canal remains one of the most crucial trade routes in the world, and the U.S. has a long history of involvement in ...

For centuries, Mars has played tricks on our perception - from imagined canals to mysterious rock formations. Today, the Perseverance Rover continues that legacy, revealing stones that may not be ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds ...

Lacking vegetation, the birds populating the canals of the Netherlands' capital use refuse to build their nests; a ...

Lucian of Samosatam was probably the first to write about travel to outer space and aliens in his 160 AD work: "A True Story" ...

An exciting finding on a distant planet should also make us thankful for anyone who is doing the long, hard work of science.

The consensus that America should be a benign superpower, born out of the ashes after 1945, has gone, too. And Mr Trump wants ...

AS the Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark – or take it by force – some Silicon Valley ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...