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.

"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 ...

Abstract: Experiment is one of the necessary conditions for scientific progress. For cognitive science, neuroscience, biomedical science and other human-related disciplines, experiments involving ...

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 ...