In an ambitious new proposal, scientists suggest that humanity could soon turn the Sun into a colossal telescope, allowing us ...

A new preprint paper has taken a look at what propulsion systems could deliver spacecraft to a particularly interesting area ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope mission viewed 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, when researchers believed the brightening occurred due to a phenomenon associated with comets as they vent water, carbon ...

Energy is fundamentally important—researchers have linked a lack of reliable energy to poor physical health, poor mental ...

AI is coming for our jobs, and now we can add "Mars Rover Driver" to that list. Last month, the Perseverance rover successfully drove not one, but two trips across the Martian sur ...

A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for ...

Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — which could make it hard for nutrients to get down to its buried ocean.

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory claims, but a comet.

Sreejith Vidhyadharan Nair receives funding from the University of North Dakota. I have previously received external research funding from agencies such as the FAA and NASA; however, these projects ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...