SINGAPORE – While some parents reserve their professional skills for the workplace, this police couple put their investigative expertise to use outside of work as well. One school day, Superintendent ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

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On February 3, 1966 the Soviet probe Luna 9 conducted the first soft landing of a human-built object on an extraterrestrial world. The probe transmitted the first pictures taken directly on the ...

What makes this chunk of dirty ice so magnetic is not only what it is, but where it came from. 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object we've ever seen passing through our solar system ...

Artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of a K-type star. Credit: Courtesy: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle Some astronomers have made it their life’s work to find “Earth ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

A massive interstellar object hurtling through the solar system may be considerably larger than initial observations suggested, according to a new analysis. It could even have alien technology, ...

In 1977, NASA launched Voyagers 1 and 2 from Cape Canaveral, Florida into space to embark on a grand tour of the far reaches of our solar system. Mounted on board each probe was a 12-inch gold-plated ...

When Betty and Barney Hill arrived at the office of Boston psychiatrist Benjamin Simon on Dec 14, 1963, they appeared to have a number of perfectly normal problems. Betty was suffering from nightmares ...