If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

The tallest cliff in the solar system is so extreme that even imagining standing on its edge is enough to make your stomach ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...