Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than ...

Her human figures emerge as mythic vessels—porous, androgynous and inseparable from the natural and spiritual systems they inhabit.

Microorganisms live in biofilms—the equivalent of microbial "cities"—everywhere on Earth. These city-like structures protect and house microbial communities and play essential roles in enabling human ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

Imagine stepping outside on a clear night, looking up at the stars, only to find the heavens dimmed to a faint, featureless glow. Where once the Milky Way stretched across the sky, now only a handful ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

A Silicon Valley startup is accepting applications for a planned Moon hotel, with reservation deposits up to $1 million and total trip costs expected to exceed $10 million per guest.

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...