The scientific wonderers at What If examine the theory of panspermia to see if our biological origins actually lie on a passing comet or a distant world.

A team of astronomers from the European Space Agency have found that a huge interstellar object in space is ejecting water ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

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The reusable booster of the New Glenn rocket launched from Florida on Sunday (April 19) by Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin ...

In the town forever linked to a crashed object in 1947, belief has become an industry – and disbelief almost beside the point ...

Ingrid is the daughter of Gervase Purich, and grew up in Perth before settling in Darwin three years ago after she met Jeremy ...

After spending two days adrift in the Andaman Sea earlier in April, Rohingya refugee Rahila Begum is recovering from illness.

An imaginative and compelling book reveals how radio waves help us tune in to our universe – and even search for alien ...

But the very heart of our planet remains a mystery. For many years, scientists believed that iron and nickel made up Earth’s ...

Justice Clarence Thomas, the senior-most member of the Supreme Court, sought to honor that historic milestone this week by ...