If intelligent alien civilizations exist, why has nobody ever contacted humanity? This video explores the famous Zoo Hypothesis, the Fermi Paradox, and the unsettling possibility that advanced ...

We've put rovers on Mars. We've mapped the ocean floor. We've decoded the human genome. And somehow, this triangle of water — ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of physics. The so-called Feynman sprinkler problem is named after one of the best-known ...

By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night ...

The Trump administration's twisted definition of one word is putting hundreds of rare animals at risk.

Two independent research teams discovered a hidden giant planet in the famous Beta Pictoris star system using different ...

Ohio astronaut Charles Bassett was set for space before a tragic crash ended his life at 34. His legacy lives on.

A few years ago, archaeologists were rummaging about the Border Cave in South Africa’s northeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal ...

MIT Museum’s Michael John Gorman revists the landmark 1976 Cambridge recombinant DNA debate to argue that today’s A.I.

Football — or soccer as it's known in the U.S. — is more than a game, and the World Cup is more than a tournament. This ...

A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest ...