Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

A soaring valuation for SpaceX, coupled with favorable court rulings and investor confidence, has driven Musk's net worth ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...

Racing simulators have come a long way in recent years, pushed to new heights of capabilities thanks to the evolution of the related technologies. The truly impressive ones, the so-called professional ...