From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Humanity has spent a century turning interstellar travel into a cultural inevitability, from pulp magazines to prestige ...

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Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.