On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Kalshi. At 7:45 p.m. eastern time, a single trader put down nearly $100,000 on the claim that, by the end of December, the Trump ...

We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists -- whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth -- that rose to the ...

The soda straws are another geological oddity that sounds more like a menu item than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will perform 49 close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon, where radiation levels reach 5,400 milliSieverts per day — lethal within hours. Beneath its frozen crust may lie a ...

Far beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches and temperatures soar near underwater volcanoes, life still thrives. Entire ecosystems survive on toxic chemicals released from ...

"It was nice to have the public’s focus on a topic that doesn’t involve the future of democracy as we know it or whether the ...

We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe ...

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.