Recent discoveries on Mars have sparked excitement in the scientific community as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) ...
In most photos, the surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ...
Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...
At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...
Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language ...
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...
Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...