On a 1964 mission to study deep waters in the Antarctic, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) research vessel Eltanin ...

Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don't exist helps explain the natural world ...

Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social ...

Geologist Kirsten Oravec is in her element. "This is a walk on the Earth's mantle. These are wonderfully strange rocks," she ...

After decades of secrecy, stigma, and sometimes silliness—like the conspiratorial tales about recovered spacecraft and alien remains at a place known as Area 51 in Nevada—the government has at long ...

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps helps explain one of nature's most remarkable innovations: eusociality, a ...

In May 2026, the US government’s decision to begin to release and declassify the official reports of UFO activity—known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or ...

Avi Loeb, who served as the Chair of the Department of Astronomy until 2020, will head the new “UAP Science Advisory Council.” The Council’s creation is part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

A polarizing Harvard University astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national ...