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

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A Reddit user shared a mind-blowing video of wild mushrooms growing, and people can't get enough of the mesmerizing footage.

Some of Trump’s more recent off-the-cuff speeches and statements have been beyond bizarre – rambling, disjointed utterances ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a leading British space expert, has made the extraordinary claim that humanity will discover life off the Earth by the year 2075. She is convinced our civilisation will ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Amirali Aghazadeh receives funding from Georgia Tech. When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...