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Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life -- not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers discovered that living systems leave behind a kind of ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed "Dracula's Chivito," the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering filaments visible on only one side. The disk ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe's "cosmic web" -- the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing more than 164,000 galaxies through the massive ...

Staying strong may be one of the biggest secrets to living longer -- especially for older women. A major study of more than 5,000 women found that simple signs of muscle strength, like a firm hand grip or the ability to quickly stand up from a chair, ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological evidence from Africa and Asia suggests early humans ...

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once. Using advanced laser techniques, researchers at the ...

Researchers say fructose is not just "empty calories" -- it may actively push the body toward fat storage and metabolic disease. A new review found that fructose affects the body differently from glucose, disrupting normal energy regulation and ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The maneuver will save ...

NASA's Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed "Atacama" -- the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover's drill. Engineers watched as Curiosity shook, vibrated, . ...

Dante's Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors. In this interpretation, Satan crashes ...