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’ ...

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 ...

Spoilers follow for Project Hail Mary. Let’s get something straight right out of the gate: Project Hail Mary, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Executive Office of the President registered aliens.gov on March 18, 2026, through the official government domain registry—a move that sounds like satire but shows up in CISA’s records as ...

Two newly registered federal website domains – Alien.gov and Aliens.gov – are drawing attention after records showed they were created this week by a U.S. government agency, fueling speculation as ...