Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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.

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 ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

Scores of refill stores have opened in recent years as retailers and customers seek fresh ways to reduce waste.

Pull off the highway to discover an Arizona diner packed with UFO decor, nostalgic eats, and the kind of weird that makes ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re putting energy in the wrong places.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

DON'T NOD's new sci-fi action-adventure Aphelion brings players to a hostile planet in which exploration itself is a challenge.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will move to declassify long-guarded government files related to extraterrestrial life and unidentified ...