Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Astronomers produce the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

If life once existed on Mars, the most likely place to find evidence of it may be locked away in the planet’s ice.

Project Hail Mary co-director Christopher Miller has moved to clarify recent comments in which he said there isn't a single ...

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

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

Since the 1970s, planetary geologists have known that volcanic features cover large swaths of Mars. Early Mariner 9 images ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

How can Martian regolith (often mistakenly called “soil”) be used to benefit human exploration? This is what a recent study published in the In | Space ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

I analysed over 200,000 errors across 11,842 films released between 1930 and 2025, to understand where and how audiences say movies gets facts, physics, and history wrong.