Interstellar visitors are rare enough that each one rewrites the playbook for how scientists study the space between stars. On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS survey spotted a new object, first tagged as ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look. Not because the problems aren’t real — they are — but ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Travel industry and airline trade groups warned that the longer DHS appropriations are lapsed, the longer security lines ...