Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a ...

Reigns hasn’t been seen since Survivor Series: WarGames, where the night ended with a tense stare-down between Reigns and ...

After modeling Europa's conditions, the researchers concluded that its rocky seafloor is likely mechanically too strong to ...

New research raises doubts about Europa's potential for supporting life, due to the lack of tectonic and volcanic activity on ...

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

At the edge of a small Ontario town, a steep-sided turquoise lake occupies the footprint of a long-defunct iron mine. The ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...