In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest hints yet" of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when ...

Science has been wrong before, sometimes in ways that now sound almost impossible to believe. People once accepted ideas like phlogiston, spontaneous generation, and even the claim that bumps on a ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

There's movies that bomb at the box office, and then there's movies that bomb so bad, they take entire movie studios down ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...