Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

A new study shows how salt-enriched ice can sink through pure ice, potentially delivering nutrients to deeper parts of the ocean.

Twists like Darth Vader's reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, or the ending of The Mist, are among the greatest and most ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...