The filmmaker weighed in on aliens and his career during a keynote appearance at South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on ...

In Canada and elsewhere, economic concerns, including the cost of living, jobs, housing and trade, are the main preoccupation.

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

On Feb. 28, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will stretch across the sky in a dazzling alignment Getty Six planets will align on Feb. 28, with Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter ...

How expensive is it to simply function in California? Cost of living and incomes vary widely from state to state, so what it takes to get by in one place can look very different somewhere else. A ...

The idea of humans living on Mars is closer to reality than it’s ever been. On Feb. 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ferried an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, another ...

It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as ...

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...