Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...

In a controversial experiment, physicists investigated whether we could harness the Earth's rotational energy to generate electricity.

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Water might have formed much earlier than previously thought. Computer simulations show supernovae produced significant ...