The bestselling writer and self-described “dork” explains how he crafts upbeat space-set thrillers from dire scenarios only expertise can solve.

Rocks from Australia have given scientists the oldest direct proof that Earth's surface was moving in separate pieces 3.5 billion years ago.

Elon Musk said he was going "make science fiction real" and help push the Earth up a step on the Kardashev scale, on Saturday announcing a new $20 billion chip fabrication plant near Austin called ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss.

Project Hail Mary feels like the type of sci-fi story that features the same spirit as the best installments of Star Trek.

No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again. Will the quest inspire the nation?

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are exploring how these inexpensive, robust cables could help future moon ...

Project Hail Mary, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, is not a particularly faithful adaptation of its source material when it comes to the ...

This image taken from video shows a suspected meteor falling through the sky in the greate ...

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