Multi-billion-dollar space telescope programs aren't only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature "lies, damn lies, ...

The buzz about aliens began in the summer of 1947. The US army sightings of “flying saucers” fuelled widespread speculations about visiting aliens, urging the US to launch its first highly classified ...

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language ...

Astronomers used winds on ultra-hot gas giant exoplanets to infer their magnetic fields' strength, finding them to be weaker ...

We talk to astronomer Professor Jon Willis about what form alien life may take based on evidence we find on Earth ...

The Bud Werner Memorial Library will host bestselling science writer David Baron for a free talk about his book, “The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century ...

When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the most extreme, ...

Sheen pulls off a fantastic, convincing performance, displaying an unhinged intensity while rockin’ a sweet goatee and ...

While winning the NBA Championship remains the goal, San Antonio basked in the moment and properly celebrated the Game 7 win ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released new batches of never-before-seen UFO files, including photos and video, on May 8 and 22. Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Penn State and ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

We know what happens when the sun sends out coronal mass ejections to our planet. Satellites can fry. Power lines can stop transmitting. And in 1859, a particularly powerful punch known as the ...