A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...

Researchers looking for signs of extraterrestrial life instead stumbled upon a pulsar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

Bill Maher is worried about what extraterrestrial visitors would think of humanity if the first person they encountered from Earth was President Donald Trump. Speaking on his Club Random podcast, the ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

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