As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

“Bugonia” refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees could spawn spontaneously from dead cow carcasses, and that cow dung was beneficial to the hive. It’s a myth, of course, but that didn’t stop ...

A light, imaginative look at how extraterrestrial observers might interpret car haulers and what these vehicles reveal about human technology and transport.

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...