The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

Early super robots focused on giant machines defeating monsters, but later mecha expanded those ideas into stories about ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Landmark science fiction books like The Time Machine, 1984, and The Left Hand of Darkness have helped shape and define the genre over centuries.

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...