Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

The investigation of pulsar signals suggests that aliens may be communicating their presence by flashing signals in the ...

WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...