Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

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

JWST detected rising methane emissions from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, exposing ancient interior ice and offering new ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

But human beings, equipped with language, abstraction, technology, institutions, and ideology, can be stupid on a truly ...

Writing about home life doesn’t have to be humdrum argues the author of Natural Disaster – just look at world-spanning ambitious works such as Ducks, Newburyport and All Fours ...

Rocket launch was, until SpaceX, a niche industry — strategically vital, economically marginal, dominated by governments (US, ...

Building material samples from the University of Delaware spent six months mounted outside the International Space Station, ...

Future Artemis astronauts may be able to explore rocks blasted from deep inside the Moon by an ancient giant impact.