The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group will try to detect and attribute objects…
Under a proposed NASA framework, scientists would use a tiered scale to validate claims of life beyond Earth.
io9 has the first look at The Art and Science of Arrival, a detailed behind-the-scenes exploration of Denis…
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Specific concerns over space travel's affects on the human body are something many people with disabilities don’t…
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A recent study found that acceptance of evolution among Americans has increased, even among religious…
The project is led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who argued that interstellar object ‘Oumuamua might be an alien…
Data from Hubble Space Telescope reveals evidence of water vapor escaping from the surface of Jupiter's large, icy…
A light-powered microscope has a resolution limit of around 200 nanometers—which makes observing specimens smaller…
Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a…
Deepfakes are getting better and better, but instead of wearing Tom Cruise’s face on a golf course, we decided to…
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A U.S. government-funded study has provided evidence of a hopeful treatment for people struggling with…
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Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South…
Blue Origin is planning to launch an upgraded New Shepard spacecraft today, along with a test dummy named Mannequin…
A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the…
Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…
Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus…
Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with…
Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing…
A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent…