A new model simulates a rocky planet without life, giving astronomers a baseline to judge whether gases in an exoplanet's ...

The skeptical, even scornful opposition of many leading evolutionary biologists to SETI stems largely from NOT wanting other ...

Lund University has constructed a compact accelerator-driven neutron source based on a repurposed 3 MV Pelletron accelerator ...

In 1975, seven Arizona loggers encountered a glowing disc in the forest, and six claimed they watched a blue-green beam strike Travis Walton before fleeing in terror. Walton disappeared for nearly ...

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When we think of extraterrestrial intelligence that might be out there among the stars, we tend to think of creatures not too ...

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana studies planets beyond our solar system in the search for alien life. But he now faces challenges closer to Earth: Trump threats and Caltech's potential loss of NASA ...

When Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. LHS 1140b orbits a faint, red star within the constellation of Cetus — named after a ...

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