Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime ...

The Supreme Court early Saturday morning paused the deportation of immigrants potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act, ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

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Other scientists continue to feel frustrated with the way the work is being described to the public, with news headlines that ...

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the removal of Venezuelan detainees accused under a wartime law of being foreign ...

The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing officials from ...

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists ...