Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Among her most ominous forecasts was a warning that World War III would erupt in 2026 — a prediction made more unsettling by ...

For decades, scientists have scoured the skies and planetary surfaces for evidence that life might exist beyond Earth. New ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Baby Vanga lost her sight at age 12 after being caught in a tornado, an event that coincided with the emergence of her purported psychic abilities.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...