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 ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

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

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

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

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

Winner of the Booker Prize 2024, the prestigious British book award, Orbital is about the observations and reflections of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Written in a meditative ...

Though this January has often felt like it would never end, at least the new YA releases were on point, from contemporary to ...

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