In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

"Of all the sickening things afflicting our daily lives for which the antidote has yet to be delivered, 'detention centers' are to me the most nauseating," writes columnist Stephen Kessler.

Wobbly water solution Your recent Jeff Davi op-ed touting Cal Am’s wobbly “three-legged stool” argument omitted important details. First, this stool is standing on quicksand and will be rendered ...

Released in the United States on August 2, 2002, M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi horror thriller "Signs" will turn 24 this year.

Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

The most terrifying place in Indiana isn’t a Halloween attraction or a legendary haunted location, it’s Gary, a city where economic collapse has created a landscape so thoroughly abandoned that it ...

Mineral Point, Wisconsin is exactly that kind of town, complete with stone cottages built directly into hillsides like something out of a Hobbit movie, except these were constructed by Cornish miners ...

Residents and authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz banded together in cleaning tar off their shores on ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...