A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit cultivated the unusual specimen during a microgravity gardening experiment, ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

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“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

From the ugly to the awesome to the downright weird, Hollywood has brought a whole cosmos' worth of alien characters to the silver screen — but what do we know about the human beings who portrayed ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...