After swimming about 60m, I notice a big, murky cloud. It’s blood, though it looks greenish in the water, and I realise that ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

In her book The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson describes pregnancy as an experience marked by a peculiar duality. On the one hand, ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

The internet and social media are full of lies. Why? The truth is often boring and sometimes discomfiting. Lies are better, ...

The internet and social media are full of lies. Why? The truth is often boring and sometimes discomfiting. Lies are better, more interesting, more apt to comfort the fearful.

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

Pete Davidson’s girlfriend, Elsie Hewitt, underwent a wisdom tooth removal the day after giving birth to the couple’s baby girl. The new mom shared a selfie revealing her bandaged and swollen face via ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Pakistani influencer Pyari Maryam has died at age 26 after giving birth to twin boys. The social media star’s husband, Ahsan Ali, confirmed her death on Thursday in an Instagram story, writing, ...