The main focus of the trip is to study the effects of long-term spaceflight on the body, but the test is also a side mission.

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Building a real hoverboard is one thing — testing it is another. After countless adjustments and engineering tweaks, it all ...

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...

A leading astrobiologist argues that advanced aliens may well exist but are likely giving Earth a miss, thanks to vast ...

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...