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The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if we found life on Jupiter's moon Europa.

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, known for his controversial extraterrestrial theories, is now leading a new Trump ...

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 ...

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

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

A research paper, published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, states that Earth may have been sending ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...