The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our ...

The most important part of any Supreme Court ruling today is the majority opinion, for that is what the law is. The ...

Avi Loeb’s White House panel has asked the Pentagon for videos and files on unexplained aerial sightings A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was taken over three days (Picture: NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU)/Cover Images) An interstellar ...

Rachael Mead was born unable to smell. It means she experiences the world differently – from tasting food, to a heightened risk of danger. But it’s not all bad.

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court’s decision in CISCO Systems, Inc. v. Doe, announced on June 23, was not only, as expected, good news for ...

An interstellar comet that passed through the Solar System last year may be up to 12 billion years old – far older than the sun. Scientists used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to examine ...

What’s the best movie sequel ever made? Ask that question in a room full of movie fans and you’ll get plenty of passionate answers. Some will say, “The Empire Strikes Back”; others will argue for “The ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, the day after all three Congressional candidates he endorsed won their Democratic primary elections. Three congressional ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.