More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

H.R. Giger's original creature design continues to frighten audiences decades after it debuted in "Alien," but does the ...

First of all, yes, it’s pronounced Enceladus , not enchiladas. Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon, but it would be ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

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.

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

It was bound to happen eventually, and it appears the calendar flipping to 2026 was the right time for one person to publicly ...

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

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Frozen crystals of hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous substance, may have been essential to life on Saturn’s moon Titan, ...