Scientists found that microgravity fundamentally slows the infection cycle, pushing phages to become hyper-efficient at binding to hosts.

From moon hotels and billionaire space tourism to SETI’s 21-year search for alien technosignatures, and a censored UFO ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb says a rare sun alignment on 22 January could prove interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is an alien spaceship.

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured ultraviolet images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing hidden chemical signatures that could transform our understanding of ancient cosmic materials ...

Space reports on how scientists are using current robotic missions to support future human travel to the moon and Mars. At a press briefing held Dec. 17 during the American Geophysical Union meeting, ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will get the year off to an early start with current plans for an early-February launch for the first crewed lunar flyby since the Apollo program ended in 1972. Over the ...

As it is getting ready to send people to the Moon once more and targets a human expedition to Mars, American space agency NASA is completely rethinking the way it does things. That includes, among ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for. In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions ...

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon. In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a ...

Detection of electric discharges in dust devils by the SuperCam instrument, on board the Perseverance rover on Mars. Credit: Nicolas Sarter Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been ...