A wedding scene hides a secret alien guest. This brain teaser tests observation, focus, and quick thinking in a fun timed ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

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Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

Energy is fundamentally important—researchers have linked a lack of reliable energy to poor physical health, poor mental ...

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Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Researchers looking for signs of extraterrestrial life instead stumbled upon a pulsar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...