It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

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 ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

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

President Trump had gone to the 2024 election promising to disclose everything about one of his MAGA fan base’s favourite conspiracies: that aliens are real, aliens are among us, and aliens secretly ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

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

February 17, 1600. A man with a gag in his mouth and his tongue pierced with an iron rod was dragged out into Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori square. Moments later, Jesuit priests stripped him naked, hung him ...

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

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