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

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

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

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.

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

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

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

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

In quantum mechanics, not only light but also matter can behave both as a particle and as a wave. This has been proven many times for electrons, atoms, and small molecules through double-slit ...