Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres. When a distant planet crosses in front of its star, some of that starlight ...

A spacecraft en route to Jupiter has captured unprecedented ultraviolet images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing scientists with new clues to the composition of the most ancient traveler ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

On Nov. 5, as the sun started setting, around 25 Swarthmore students gathered in the Wister Center, donned some very fashionable yellow aprons, and got to work making candles. However, this wasn’t on ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...

Macrophotography and bee hotels introduced Dr Kit Prendergast to the world of native bees. Inspired, she began her PhD on protecting native bee biodiversity in urbanised habitats, and investigating ...

This story was produced by Arin Barry and distributed by Next Net. Smart lighting kits are redefining home design, from layout to lifestyle. Instead of relying on wall switches, these systems give ...

Following the release of Alien: Earth’s sixth episode, “The Fly,” actor Kit Young who portrayed the science ambitious hybrid Isaac/Tootles spoke to Collider about his work on Noah Hawley’s series, ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “The Fly,” Season 1, Episode 6 of “Alien: Earth,” now streaming on Hulu. Within the opening moments of “Alien: Earth,” it was revealed that the race ...

I didn’t expect to be interrupted in the middle of my coffee break by Emma Stone with a shaved head, but here we are! And of course, Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things) is responsible. The ...

Truths have been hidden from us for hundreds of years. In antiquity, a few had glimpsed the secrets that history has long forgotten but were silenced before they could reveal the most secret knowledge ...