Not often do astronomers come across a tear in the tissue of a galaxy a scab so big it might span one-fifth of the Milky Way.

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule ...

A planned resurrection of long-running cult smash Red Dwarf would have seen Dave Lister go back in time to talk sense into his 23-year-old self ...

Gamers fall into one of two categories: Those who have played Dwarf Fortress and those who haven’t. Within the former are another couple of subsets, those who couldn’t hack the complexity and graphics ...

When things have looked bleak for the Boston Red Sox this season, there's often been a new hero waiting to deliver a timely hit. On Friday night in Tampa, that hero was Jarren Duran. Facing a 3-2 ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...