Earth Season 1, an exciting update from the production team suggests that Season 2 is moving forward faster than anticipated, ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Did you know? Sound from another planet, the wind on Mars, has been recorded and made audible with the help of headphones and ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by ...

Many muses have inspired the greatest songs by bands, but these artists made a handful of their songs purely out of spite.

Sheriffs from seven Maryland counties gathered in the state capitol to blast a new state law that bars cooperation agreements between federal immigration officers and local authorities. […] ...

Lawsuits are one of the only ways to hold the line against a regime bent on frog-marching our country back to the late nineteenth century—the actual Gilded Age, before women’s suffrage and the civil ...

In northeast Georgia, a hospital closed its maternity ward. In rural New Hampshire, a community health center shuttered. And in Iowa, a Des Moines hospital system laid off dozens of employees and ...

All You Need is Kill is an edgy sci-fi anime that combines romantic comedy, psychological drama and action adventure. The film is based on an illustrated novel previously adapted as Edge of Tomorrow ...