A risky dark web experiment turns into a strange aquarium nightmare when mystery boxes filled with dangerous sea creatures start arriving at his door. Some packages contain alien-looking fish, ...

"Viking more likely than not found autotrophic microbial life on Mars, roughly 1,000 cells per gram." When you purchase ...

"We had previously seen that AI has a big Achilles heel when it is trying to classify things that are unlike the things in ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about sugar molecules in space, a call for volunteers for a simulated Moon/Mars mission and next steps for NASA's New Horizons probe.

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should we look at first?

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false positives than their human operators. “No matter what sequence of commands ...

An Orange County family whose home was surrounded by FBI agents and SWAT Team members after “suspicious” items were found in its garage says there is nothing nefarious about the discovery. Sandra ...

A House Oversight Committee task force investigating long-classified federal secrets will hold a hearing Tuesday focused on the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial MK-Ultra program, a Cold War ...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial to understanding Titan’s complex chemistry ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...