Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising h...

Ma says he is betting on humans over machines, while Musk fears doomsday is coming.

For centuries, the simple act of knuckle-cracking has not got the attention it deserved, considering its prevalence.

In the first 400,000 years following the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a glowing gas, the light from which survives to this day.

"We haven't heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place - but that doesn't mean no one is out there," said Evan Solomonides, from the Co...

In research aiming to understand how life might develop, the scientists realised new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or ...

It's a crucial insight from one of the founders of Western philosophy: You should question everything you think you know.

Life could exist on exoplanets (planets attached to stars other than our Sun). The Kepler spacecraft identified 3601 unconfirmed planetary ...

There are billions of stars in the galaxies that are billions of years older. Surely, some of them would have Earth-like planets.

The story of India's/Indian/Indian-American contribution to technology is not new; it goes back at least couple of decades, possibly more.

The scientific search for extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence has all the makings of a new religion. Believers argue that while it’s true ou...

Leon Lederman said it made perfect sense to invoke the Almighty while re-naming the Higgs particle, because the mechanism that supposedly b...