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

A new study has looked into the so-called "red sky paradox" and the puzzling observation that intelligent life has sprung up ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

We know how the universe began. An event we call the Big Bang started it all about 13.8 billion years ago. How the universe ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

As the play begins, self-described bag lady Trudy is waiting on the corner of Walk/Don't Walk in New York City for an arranged meeting with the aliens she's befriended. The role made famous by Lily ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka University in Japan, Mary E.

Marga Gomez has been a beloved fixture of the Bay Area comedy and theater scenes for many years. She now steps into the role made famous by Lily Tomlin in “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in ...