“NASA [wanted] justification for going to Europa, to Titan, to Ganymede, to Callisto, to Mars,” says Hazen. If life does exist there, it’s likely to be under the surface, in warm, high ...

“By definition, we have no idea what a superintelligent ... Only a superintelligent system could map the phenomenally complex interplay of gene mutations that gives rise to a genius pianist ...

"Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet." ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...

A federal judge is giving the Trump administration two weeks to hand over information on what it has done to comply with the ...

New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.

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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of "woman" refers to someone born biologically female, excluding trans women under equality laws. The ruling upholds a Scottish group’s appeal ...

The new map, which is intended to illustrate the potential for fire activity in certain areas over a multi-decade period, expanded the state’s “very high fire hazard” zones by millions of ...

A research team led by statistical experts from the University of Innsbruck has now provided high-resolution estimates ... Based on a 20-kilometer grid, the maps produced in the study show how ...

In accomplishing this feat, they amassed 1.6 petabytes of data — the equivalent of 22 years of nonstop high-definition video. “This is a milestone,” said Davi Bock, a neuroscientist at the ...