In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the ...

Now researchers think they know why: Bowhead whales are very good at repairing damaged DNA, which leads to many ailments ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii, marks the third recorded interstellar object, following the discoveries of ...

One aspect that worked so well about Farscape is that across four seasons of eighty-eight episodes, the show amazingly melded the stakes of an epic space opera with an episodic sci-fi series. The plot ...

A popcorn tin is a classic gift, but what if you got them a ~fancy~ popcorn tin? With caramel and spiced with candied orange ...

Texas has a way of hiding its most spectacular treasures in plain sight, and nowhere is this more true than at Blanco State Park. Nestled along a pristine stretch of the Blanco River, this 104.6-acre ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

The “shoot first, edit later” philosophy behind 360-degree cameras should, in theory, make them ideal for imaging the night ...

In the eastern morning sky, Venus is being swallowed by the rising sun’s glare. Taking Venus’s place this month is Arcturus, the brilliant star in kite-shaped Bootes, the herdsman. Meanwhile, Jupiter ...