SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

Did you get wind of what that new fart study found—you know the one recently published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X? Well, participants in the study farted on average 32 times a day ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

While breaking wind could help protect against Alzheimer’s and postpartum depression, there can be too much of a “good” thing. Scientists recently discovered that we’re passing gas a lot more often ...

From the lab that brought you the reason behind yellow pee comes another monumental advance in digestive science: a fart-tracking sensor to be attached to your underwear. As it turns out, farts are ...

Everyone farts—it’s a biological fact. But whether you interpret that odorous puff of air as a harmless (even funny) fact of life or a gross human indecency turns out to be surprisingly telling—and ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.