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’ ...

I've got a lot of sympathy for any game that tries to cram the entire plot arc and premise into not just the title, but the title's acronym. Still I'm pretty lukewarm on the aliens so far. Rebellion ...

The internet went into a frenzy on Friday when a NASA astronaut shared a weird alien-looking photo on social media. The photo showed an object that was floating in the air and appeared to be purple, ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A proposed bill that prohibits the construction of new isolation rooms in public schools and places strict limits on when staff can physically restrain students is about to become law ...

We don't often get high quality popcorn flicks these days — movies that are not just pure entertainment, but that are also extremely well-made, particularly in the post-COVID era. Only a handful of ...

The two men rehearsed each scene before bringing out the puppet so they could get the blocking nailed down. “That would be our one chance to check in with each other, see each other’s eyes, and sort ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...