NASA and SpaceX are preparing to explore a metal world — a place unlike any planet humanity has ever visited. This object may ...

Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

Despite being a high point for the franchise as a whole, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was not without its fair share of episodes that missed the mark.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Steven Spielberg reflected on his fascination with what he described as "the guarantee" that there is life elsewhere beyond ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...