Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a leading candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life, has a surface dotted with enigmatic ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is recovering from a string of cyberattacks that leaked hundreds of gigabytes of potentially ...

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

A surprising kitchen discovery unfolded on January 2, 2026, in Weihai, China, when a woman cracked open a boiled egg and ...