An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter's magnetic field. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) The ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

A shocking pattern appears again and again throughout modern history. From wartime propaganda and emotional media campaigns ...

Astrobiologists warn that NASA's current instruments may miss subtle signs of alien life, risking 'false negatives' in the ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

There are all sorts of things flying around the universe that we earthlings haven't yet figured out how to identify.

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

Was Donald Trump an "X-Files" fan? This new real White House web page makes you wonder. From Yvette Walker: ...

The Democrats talk a lot about democracy dying in darkness. Democracy is dying in California. Now, what do I mean by that? When you look at the LA mayoral race, you start to see a familiar pattern ...