A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...
Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian ...
Streetlights shaped like alien heads line the roads of Roswell, New Mexico, where murals of flying saucers streak across ...
Seven years ago, Andy Weir was busy writing Project Hail Mary, his sci-fi epic about a school teacher, Dr Ryland Grace, who wakes up on a spacecraft and gradually remembers he’s there to save ...
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These sea slugs can 'eat' sunlight—but they're no astrophage. Here's how the 'Project Hail Mary' antagonist has a real-life analog in Earth's oceans
The sea slug is bright green, shaped like a leaf and doing something very few animals can: harnessing the power of the sun.
By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space ...
By reconstructing ancient nitrogen-processing enzymes, scientists are uncovering new clues about how early life survived on a very different Earth.
Alien: Earth creator’s genius 5-part crime series returns to the global streaming charts 12 years after airing.
Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...
Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...
Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.
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