A short history of America's fascination with deportation may help us understand the present situation and correct some of its excesses. Daniel Kanstroom, author of the definitive work on outsiders ...

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien ...

One sunny July morning, on a lake in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, two scientists skimmed a black inflatable raft back and forth across the water. Isabella Oleksy, an ecologist at the University of ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home planet.

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from seeing what it’s made of. Observations from JWST revealed that this haze may ...

Americans are betting billions on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. What could go wrong?

High in the Rockies, researchers are discovering that wind-borne pollution and rising heat are fueling unprecedented algal blooms ...

Watch scenes from the films nominated for best picture at the 98th annual Academy Awards, as well as interviews with the ...

James Blake released his seventh album, Trying Times, last week. But according to the Enfield-born producer there’s a whole ...

Democrats’ refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security has exceeded any hypothesis of good faith. It is an ...