Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Each winter, thousands of massive northern elephant seals gather at California’s Año Nuevo State Park for their breeding ...

Marcello Hernández recalled a "Saturday Night Live" sketch about aliens he thought was a home run but got crickets when ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” and Pixar’s “Elio” lead the 53rd Annie Awards for animation with 10 nominations each. Both are nominated for best feature, alongside “Little Amélie or the Character of ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

The "elephant in the room" describes an obvious, difficult or unpleasant truth known to all present, but which everyone conspires to ignore or avoid discussing. It represents a significant issue—a ...

Since its discovery, some people have speculated that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be alien technology. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb points to its unusual trajectory and composition as ...

The comet poses no danger to Earth and will pass at a distance of about 170 million miles. Scientists are studying the object, which originated outside our solar system, using telescopes like Hubble ...

In November, SETI Institute researchers contributed expert perspective to media stories on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and recent experiments testing the survival of plant life in space. The coverage ...

The comet originated from outside our solar system and poses no danger to our planet. NASA officials have rejected theories that the object could be an alien spaceship. While not visible to the naked ...