New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

This is a manifesto disguised as a novel and makes no secret of its intent. The characters feel undifferentiated like ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

Who benefits from scare stories about aliens, and are we alone in the Universe?Since ancient times, humans have gazed at the night sky ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.

Cancer research is complex, but video games can help. Jeff Yoshimi believes gamers can contribute to scientific breakthroughs ...

Lovelock warned Rothschild that fossil fuel combustion was leading to catastrophic pollution and that it would have to be replaced by nuclear power. Watts sums up the “client-provider and ...