This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope ...
Two papers authored by astronomer Beatriz Villarroel claim to show that thousands of “transients” in historic astronomical ...
Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...
It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...
It began the way many discoveries do — a tickling of curiosity in the back of someone’s mind. That someone was astronomer and communicator Carl Sagan. The thing doing the tickling was the trajectory ...