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.

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

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

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

Far below the reach of sunlight, in water cold enough to freeze most life in its tracks, scientists have found oxygen being made in the dark. At more than 13,000 feet beneath the Pacific, where no ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that has drawn decades of fascination — and spawned more than a few wild ...

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 ...