A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has gone viral as it states that a 2 billion-year-old asteroid contains human DNA ...

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 ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...