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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...

You may have noticed people out and about with little stickers on their faces. Perhaps you've seen moons, stars, clouds or ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints ...

It took me a while to jump on the air fryer bandwagon. When the first generation of the appliance dropped almost 15 years ago, I didn’t get the fuss over a glorified convection oven. But while I ate ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

Here’s some good news: Residents of Massachusetts want to roll back recreational marijuana use in their state. Just when you thought that none of the Democrat-embraced initiatives damaging our country ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. America’s cyber defense agency now warns Google, Microsoft and Apple ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and an ESA orbiter bound for Jupiter both recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in December but poses no threat and is not visible ...