From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

"Take and eat," the AI Jesus says. "This is my body." In the center of the room, real-life visitors arrayed on 26 swivel chairs turn their heads back and forth to take in the supersized Last Supper ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

In a turn of events more suited to prime-time TV, physicists have laid out the details of how the same reactors that will ...

Household gadgets have a way of sounding scarier than they are once someone attaches a giant number to them. The claim that a ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

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In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...