After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

I accidentally watched "My Octopus Teacher" while eating octopus. I hadn't planned on watching this movie at all. I was just ...

Read an exclusive excerpt of her new book as Dr Seven Rasmussen reveals where she would look for life in the Solar System.

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The image of women free to come and go as they wished, capable of inflicting victory and defeat, of consuming what they ...

The standard sci-fi alien is a human actor with ridged forehead prosthetics, human motivations, human relationship structures ...

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I suddenly thought about this. Suppose aliens came to Earth and started observing humans. And they looked at a certain person ...

Victor Wembanyama stamped his case as the best player in the world as he led his Spurs to a remarkable 2OT win over the defending-champion Thunder.

When I say ‘Kryptonite,’ you probably think of the glowing light-green rock that harms Superman immensely. However, that’s ...

The story of the giant tortoises of the Galapagos is a story of pirates. Starting in the 16th century, these sailors began arriving at the islands, followed later by whalers, together sealing the ...

Every generation keeps its favorite unexplained legends in rotation. Mermaids at the bottom of the ocean. Ancient aliens lending a hand at Giza. Secrets buried somewhere past Antarctica’s coastline.