The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ultimately forming protocells—primitive, non-living structures that were ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

New studies co-led by UB show how 160 scientists mapped South Africa’s biodiversity using NASA aircraft and fieldwork.

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Henry McNulty interviews author Neil Shubin on his new book, Ends of the Earth, which released on February 4. They discuss science communication in 2025, what we can learn from the polar regions, and ...

In an office decorated with photos of stars and comets illuminating the night sky, Elias Aydi has written his first novel ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...