Star Trek” and UC Santa Cruz go hand in hand. The college is mentioned by name on a radio broadcast at the very start of the ...

Ridley Scott has plenty of notable sci-fi hits under his belt over the last 40 years, but none have stood the test of time as well as Alien. He directed the 1979 classic on a budget of only $11 ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Mark Watney had some good ideas about growing crops on Mars.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

The team picked an extremophile from the Chilean high desert that has the ability to survive some of the most inhospitable conditions on Earth: extreme cold, dryness, and intense radiation. These are ...