The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

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

The path that led Brian R. McGee to a remote forest in south-central Pennsylvania was marked by repeated attempts to step up for his family in New Jersey as he battled mental health challenges. A New ...

NASA is planning to send humans to Mars for the first time in the 2030s in a bid to finally discover if we've been alone in the universe. The space agency launched the Perseverance rover, which landed ...

A year after the slayings of Alice Montejano and her 19-year-old son, Reuel Huerta, on Dec. 23, 2024, in south Stockton, the preliminary hearing in the case concluded this month.

The U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will conduct seabed search operations intermittently for 55 days as part of ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

The Larimer County Coroner's Office has completed the autopsy for Kaylee Russell, the Evans 20-year-old who was the subject of a four-day search before she was found deceased after a car crash. Her ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

On Tuesday, the FBI announced a reward totaling up to $50,000 for the location arrest and conviction of Camron Lee and the ...