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 ...

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 ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Women and Black patients are more likely to suffer life-changing complications from advanced heart and blood vessel procedures, a trio of new studies says. Persistent over-dilation of muscle ...

A mysterious metal shard captured the imagination of the American public, because it was supposedly from a 1947 UFO that crashed on Earth. The sample seemed to have an unprecedented material structure ...

Elon Musk is no stranger to eyebrow-raising statements, but his latest comments have even long-time followers doing a double-take. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO recently claimed—perhaps half-jokingly, ...