The Black Knight satellite myth claims that a mysterious object—possibly of alien origin—has been orbiting Earth for 13,000 ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Two men have been sentenced for their roles in the deaths of 53 migrants being smuggled inside a tractor trailer in southwest ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

As federal authorities continue moving to end a 28-year-old consent decree governing how the children and families of ...

In Buddhism, faith is not blind belief but rather trust and confidence in direct experience, we find in “just knowing” ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...