A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

How is it possible that so many people are willing to believe the incredible? There is a rational answer to that mystery: the ...

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in "Project Hail Mary." Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios In “Project Hail Mary,” the new ...

Immigration has shaped America into the country it is today. What could its decline, started under Trump’s second mandate, do?

Justice Samuel Alito warned the birthright citizenship ruling is "one of the most important decisions in the history of the ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Independence Day didn’t invent or perfect the summer movie, but it arguably understood it better than anything since.

When Ignacio Carrizalez arrived in the United States from Mexico 22 years ago, he came with nothing and he knew no one.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

Birthright citizenship narrowly prevailed at the Supreme Court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's opinion reads as a warning ...