We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

The synonym for bittersweet that best describes the ending of Project Hail Mary hasn’t been invented yet. Or maybe it’s in an ...

Stacker used an index that equally weighs IMDb score and Rotten Tomatoes critic ratings to rank the best science fiction film each year since 1920.

Astronaut Hansen reported huge swaths of brown hues and tinges of green. The tan striations may be iron oxide (as in rust) ...

If you read a headline that signs of intelligent life were found on the moon, you might suspect a hoax. But they are there!

The Gopher Tortoise Trail takes you through longleaf pine habitat, an ecosystem that’s become increasingly rare across the Southeast. This is where you might spot the trail’s namesake, the gopher ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

Earth is dotted with humongous, human-made structures that, to an alien eye, may be tell-tale signs of intelligent goings-on.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...