In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?

If an asteroid hadn't killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.

After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.

“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”

Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was originally seen as a colossal mistake. This one image, taken in 1995, changed everything.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

"Asking the question of, "Where did the entire universe come from?" is no longer a question for poets and theologians and philosophers. This is a question for scientists, and we have some amazing scientific answers to this question."

In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.

"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.

The most famous Hubble images show glittering stars and galaxies amidst the black backdrop of space. But more was captured than we realized.

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.