For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

A team of Chinese researchers has suggested that the mysterious gravitational wave detected in 2019, known as GW190521, may ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

From the moment she looked through a telescope, Marissa Norlund knew she was an observational astronomer.

UC Merced is expanding its academic reach in a major way by becoming one of the University of California campuses hosting ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...