Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps ...

Created by the solar wind — a stream of charged particles constantly pouring out from the sun — the heliosphere acts as a ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still be able to see dinosaurs roaming the surface of our planet, since that’s ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

Recent remarks by US president Donald Trump about releasing government files on aliens and unidentified flying objects have once again pushed Area 51 .

I don’t know how likely extraterrestrial life might be. But no matter what, the truth of Christianity will stand.

Trump has ordered the release of UFO files. The real question isn’t what they contain—it’s how the uncertainty could affect you.

Scientists suspect that a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic neutron star, or "pulsar," dwells at the heart of the Milky Way.

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A .

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...