When red rain began falling over Kerala, India, it looked like something out of a biblical nightmare. The water was bright red, it kept returning for weeks, and early tests even fueled wild theories ...

A fictional theory created by H. P. Lovecraft ended up changing 2001: A Space Odyssey - and the world.

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might respond.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

Another example of such magical thinking (see my prior post) is the ancient alien theory that the disappearance of the dinosaurs sixty-five-million years ago was not an extinction so much as an ...