Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here's how we could spot them.

A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping ... Read More

She Dreams of Pink Planets and Alien Dinosaurs

Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time. Read More

Earth Day 2024: The clock is ticking as the planet takes a licking

The news of the day doesn’t make existential problems go away. We can spend the moral and financial capital now to save the environment or our children and grandchildren will pay the price later. Read More

Scientists say they have found evidence of an unknown planet in our solar system

Scientists say they have found evidence of an unknown planet in our solar system - New findings represent the ‘strongest statistical evidence yet’ that Planet 9 exists, researcher says ... Read More

This Hellish Alien World’s Skies May Create an Eerie Rainbow ‘Glory’ Effect

The atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-76b may rain iron and form a strange, rainbow-like phenomenon called a “glory” never yet seen outside the solar system ... Read More

What Happens When Animals Cross the Road

Our byways are an unnatural incursion into the natural world, especially when they’re allowed to fall into disuse. Meet a roadkill scientist and a journalist tracking how roads mess with nature—and wh ... Read More

Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation

People may fervently espouse symbolic beliefs, cognitive scientists say, but they don’t treat them the same as factual beliefs. It’s worth keeping track of the difference. Read More

For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

Something just didn’t ... When she arrived, Goodwin found her son gasping for breath on the linoleum of his kitchen floor. His eyes were vacant. His body shook. Foam spilled from his mouth. The mother ... Read More

Red state coal towns still power the West Coast. We can’t just let them die

Los Angeles, Portland and other progressive cities are still powered by faraway coal plants. We went to Montana to find out why. Read More

Aftershocks rattle U.S. northeast after rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits region

“At first I thought it was a big truck driving down a nearby road or the oil burner shaking inside my house,” said Jeanne Evola, who described her whole house shaking in Franklin Square on Long Island ... Read More

A new (re)generation: Inside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who

“I could just hear ... an unknown planet, much as Ruby was discovered as a newborn left abandoned on a church doorstep. Their similar histories loom large throughout the season, as both find themself ... Read More

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this weekend, but it may be hard to see it. Here are some tips to help

Stargazers across the world are in for a treat when the Lyrids meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here’s the best way to see the spectacular show in the sky. Read More