Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...
If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...
A study published in Science Advances demonstrates, through experiments conducted at very high pressure and high temperature ...
Researchers Gregory Goldman, Gregory Fournier, and Betul Kacar have identified a rare class of ancient gene families, called universal paralogs, that appear to have duplicated before the last ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Where Earth got most of its water is a subject of debate, but a new study suggests that the planet’s largest reservoir of hydrogen is not the ocean, ...
From Dungeon Crawler Carl to Crime and Punishment, these picks by The National's staff prove spoken word can be more ...
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A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other ...
Life Time and Planet Fitness both reported strong growth, but their results highlighted a widening divide in consumer spending habits. Life Time’s revenue jumped 12% as higher-income members paid ...
Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon's magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about ...