Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional radio frequency tracking methods do not allow accurate measurement of small ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

A growing chorus of technologists and futurists now argue that scarcity is ending. The future may be post-old-scarcity but it will not be post-scarcity.

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

In the almost five decades since the release of Star Wars, many sci-fi movies tired (and failed) to copy its blockbuster formula.

The U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers amid flight cancellations and airspace ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

SpaceX launches new Starlink satellites, boosting its private valuation to $1.75T as the space‑internet empire expands ...

Satellite images show how the dramatic loss of sea ice in Antarctica is transforming the marine food chain, with salps ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough by successfully growing fully functional hair follicles in the lab, bringing us ...