For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Project Hail Mary' was filled with some major and surprising moments that have left fans shaken. Here's a breakdown of what ...

'Project Hail Mary,' the sci-fi movie directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and starring Ryan Gosling, has an ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

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The study analyzed over 150,000 UFO reports from the National UFO Reporting Center since 1974. Recent Congressional hearings and political commentary have renewed mainstream interest in UFOs, now ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Aliens did not visit Earth in the distant past. They didn't build the pyramids or rule ancient Greece from Mount Olympus or teach Mesoamericans how to plant corn. How do I know? Because they didn't do ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...