Here are eight recommendations for novels with enough scientific rigor and romantic spark to light a Bunsen burner. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid Ballantine Books, 2025 (Tags: ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

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

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From ‘Blade Runner’ to ‘Alien’, these sci-fi classics deliver worldbuilding tension and ideas that define everything the genre promises.

Thirty years ago, a distinguished group held its first formal meeting here in Las Vegas to discuss how they might approach ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

Jennifer Smith works with students at Mahomet-Seymour Junior High. Jennifer Smith is one of 12 teachers across the country selected for the Space for Teachers program. Mahomet-Seymour Junior High ...

A team of astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spaceship. The comet was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to enter our solar ...