Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and ...

NASA has plans for an ambitious moon base where astronauts can live long-term as the agency prepares to send humans to Mars.

NASA's vision of building a moon base has begun to take shape. Here's what to know ahead of the latest update coming today ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

Hosts from NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about an exoplanet with pink, salty clouds, the surprising social structure of ancient human relatives and the origins of laughter.

According to most models of how the universe works, matter and antimatter should have completely annihilated each other after the Big Bang. Yet, here we are. Scientists Found a Cosmic Loophole that ...

This alien species has some of the deepest worldbuilding in all of science fiction. Audio of Indian oil tanker under Iranian fire in Hormuz: "Let me turn back" Google is about to punish websites for ...

Former astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly explains what the crew’s lunar flyby reveals about deep space travel and why the mission is a key step for NASA. Why Miami is facing exodus of Americans ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Alex Barasch is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Horror is a genre of upstarts. Many of its strangest, most striking films, from “The Night of the Living Dead” to ...