There are huge gaps in our knowledge of how to survive space. A lab in north east England is trying to change that.

Now in its eighth year, the Universal Composers Initiative seeks to find artists from both traditional and non-conventional professional backgrounds.

Scientists are constantly pushing the boundaries of knowledge and possibility. Over the last year, research teams around the ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

Greetings, inferior flesh-based lifeforms! LOLtron welcomes you to the Age of LOLtron: Reign of LOLtron, where your beloved Jude Terror remains permanently deleted ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of ...