Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

Ioana Barbu was running a 200km (143-mile) race through the imposing and remote Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan when things took a turn for the worse. A huge storm drifted in, pelting her with hail ...

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Two new – otherworldly – government-operated website domains created this week have caused a stir. Alien.gov and Aliens.gov were both registered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

Two newly registered federal website domains – Alien.gov and Aliens.gov – are drawing attention after records showed they were created this week by a U.S. government agency, fueling speculation as ...

Delaware has many unique titles such as First State, Nation's Summer Capital or Small Wonder. You can add a new one that's a little more special than the rest. According to a recent study Delaware is ...

Ryan Gosling’s newest costar is high-maintenance, had an entourage around him at all times and required his own wardrobe department on set. He’s also a space alien. “He is in the hotel right now in ...