A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of past or present life linked to biological activity,...
Every day, vast quantities of rain fall across the planet. Until now, all that energy has simply gone to waste. But scientists may have found a clever new way to...
A Cambridge team of researchers are contending the strongest indication so far of extraterrestrial life. Led by professor Nikku Madhusudhan, the group of researchers studying the atmosphere of a planet...
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in...
Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States on Wednesday evening due to a solar storm, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The...
“I have been researching deep-sea squids, including the colossal, since the early 2000s, and I can say that this is honestly one of the most exciting observations that we’ve had...
This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil, when the road disappeared into what I thought was fog. When I...
The flurry of on-again, off-again tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed have thus far exempted the semiconductor chips that power much of the modern economy. That may be...
As soon as Gayle King kissed the ground following the all-women Blue Origin trip to space with Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry, other celebrities were quick to criticize the trip...
A colossal squid — the world’s largest squid species — was filmed and photographed in its natural for the first time since scientists discovered it about a century ago. Crew...
