In 'Out There' (Grand Central Publishing, 2018), Space.com senior writer Mike Wall tackles the search for alien life from many different angles and discusses humanity's drive to get off its natal rock. Read an excerpt from the new book here.

Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination.

An Iranian international chess referee has said she is afraid to return to home after state media published photographs of her apparently not wearing a hijab as is mandatory for women under Iranian law.

Why you should consider a live-and-let-live policy with the spiders you encounter in your home.

Light-sensitive cells active in the retina even before the fetus can distinguish images may play a larger role in the developing eye and brain than previously thought. Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells seemingly help establish blood supply…

Cows can "commooonicate" with each other, a startling new study says.

A new year brings both hopes and anxieties. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but worry that they won't be, and imagine some of the things that might stand in the way. More broadly, we might worry about who's going t

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the heart of the Amazon, but her plea has been heard at the United Nations and the Vatican.

There’s no way of making current levels of consumption ‘environmentally friendly’, says author John Vidal

The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.

Vitamin D is essential for good health and particularly for fighting infections and keeping the microbes in the human gut healthy. But in winter it can be difficult to get enough.

Most people believe that modern day capitalism "does more harm than good in the world," according to a new survey timed to the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

4.2-billion-year-old dynamo would have protected Earth’s atmosphere

We know that the realm of quantum physics is science operating at a mind-bogglingly small scale, thus watching quantum interactions happen is always exciting. Now, physicists have managed to observe billions upon billions of entangled electrons pas

Based on research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable…

US Central Command announced Tuesday that additional US troops who were serving at a base in Iraq that was struck by Iranian missiles earlier this month have been transported to an American medical facility in Germany.

Popular sports host Adel Ferdosipour, who recently witnessed his show being taken off the air by hardliners in the state TV, has now launched a new show on the internet.

An Iron Age tomb discovered in Italy was filled to the brim with weapons and a chariot.

It is part of a fly’s brain, but other brains will follow

A new study published by Harvard researchers in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal found that not all carbs are equal.