These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

The United States and Iran have reached an interim deal aimed at ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea." ...

Multiple explosions shook central Kyiv and reverberated across the capital throughout the night in one of the biggest attacks ...

The film “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey. By Alissa Wilkinson This silly supernatural ...

While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock ...

For centuries, humans have been wondering whether anyone lived on Venus. In the 1960s, telescopes delivered bad news: Modern-day Venus is thoroughly hostile to life, shrouded in thick acidic clouds ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

An unidentified individual plunged a knife into the 32-year-old tourist on the platform of the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station around 4 p.m., according to the NYPD and sources.