Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

The absolute nightmare scenario becomes reality when a synthetic rubber gasket completely dissolves, triggering the ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

A research report argues that NASA's planned lunar base project should include a bioconfinement facility that would protect ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Researchers say a biocontainment facility on the Moon could be humanity's last line of defense against potential future alien ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. — The Columbia River was contaminated by chemicals from the tank rupture at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in Longview, officials confirmed Wednesday. The extent of the ...

As device geometries continue to shrink and process integration becomes more complex, the margin for contamination grows smaller with every technology node. Contamination can originate from process ...

Previously, we highlighted 7 of these lost-in-time shows. But even that barely scratches the surface, since sci-fi is a massive ocean when it comes to series. So here’s another 7 that are barely ...

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions has been sued by a filmmaker behind 1995’s Alien Autopsy amid production on a Sky series about the extraterrestrial hoax. Mindhouse is working with ...