The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

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 ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Cameron revealed what this choice was in a discussion with Michael Biehn on his Just Fooling About podcast, and it started when Biehn, who played Corporal Hicks in the film, asked Cameron if he was ...

Commentary: Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet" because it is positioned just the right distance for life to evolve ...

Michael Zerang has accompanied dance and theater for decades—including an upcoming puppet staging of Ursula K. Le Guin's Left ...

Wizards big man Tristan Vukcevic doesn't have grandchildren yet, but he now has a story for them and anyone else who will listen. "Have I ever told you about the time I blocked Victor Wembanyama?" ...

As England, under D. B. Close, had made a clean sweep against India, it was feared that they would administer the same medicine to Pakistan, but the tourists saved the Lord's Test and a flicker of ...