Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help ...

Peptides are the essential building blocks of proteins like collagen, elastin, and keratin. Scientists had previously been aware of bradykinin in wasps, but they assumed it had the same evolutionary ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

It’s very important that conflict can continue, not just on Earth, but also throughout the Solar System and future galactic locations. So I am requesting all aliens within one light parsec to come to ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we’ve found so far – which in turn makes them interesting for ...

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years away.

Exploring divine authority, political power, sectarian conflict, and moral leadership in a globalized, technologically advancing world.

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...