Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Renewed attention is falling on the base after the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, a ...

A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict ...

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

The Deep Random Survey telescope managed to capture images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in July 2025. K Ly/Deep Random Survey / SWNS Are we hitching our wagon to the wrong star? Harvard scientist ...

The Borg are the most iconic villains in Star Trek. Introduced in The Next Generation, the cyborg Collective posed a particularly terrifying existential threat to the Federation: assimilation. Unlike ...

President Trump had lashed out at former President Barack Obama earlier Thursday for telling a podcaster that aliens were real. By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington President Trump said on ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...