When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years ...

“Mr. Chair, the truth is out there.” That’s what Rep. Nate Davidson, D-Cumberland and Dauphin said during a Tuesday Pa. House ...

Life in Space” runs until September at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and is about the extreme conditions beyond Earth ...

Billions of years ago, asteroids hitting Earth deposited metals crucial to technological advancement. Could we find even more of these metals by mining asteroids in space? Learn more in this clip from ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say their statistical toolbox will be used aboard planned Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft, Eureka, set to reach Jupiter's smallest moon in the 2030s ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

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Well, as a matter of fact, I have often had close encounters with aliens, only I never bothered to mention it here. For this ...

During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the gravest threat was not looming across the globe, but outside of Earth’s ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.