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 fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

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

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

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

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

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

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

A quiet confession from Zosia exposes how the Others crossed Carol’s boundaries, turning a fragile romance into a catalyst ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...