The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics — and in winter sports in general — has been a recurring theme in the ...

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Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Demonstrators continue to brave frigid temperatures in Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown. Follow for live updates.

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Renee Good was still alive when ICE agents were blocking a physician from tending to her.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt blew up at a White House reporter over ICE's handling of protesters in Minnesota.

Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...