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The huge sunspot has the potential to send a solar flare our way. Whether it will or not remains to be seen.

First identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), this system has two Earth-sized planets around a small M-dwarf star, named HD 260655.

Did China stumble with strange signals coming from exoplanets?

Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell and creating a free resource for other researchers to addres

NASA considers this a first step in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky known as UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena.

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried

The congressman has previously called for more transparency from the government in investigations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenaa term more commonly used by officials than UFO.

How much will they share?

UFO videos were played to Congressmen as part of landmark hearing as security chiefs admitted there have now had 400 reported sightings of the phenomena. Two videos were played to officials as the historic committee meeting the first of its kind 50 years

A 1,000-pound (453 kilograms) migrating great white shark surfaced off the coast of New Jersey April 28 while seeking rich fishing grounds farther north.

China's Earth 2.0 Telescope would look for Earth-size exoplanets with similar orbits around sun-like stars, in hopes of finding an Earth

Testing a person's blood for the presence of circulating melanoma cells may help identify skin cancer, while allowing them to skip invasive biopsies, a study published Wednesday found.

A new study offers a possible answer to the question "Why me?" Confirming epidemiological studies, they found that melanomas and lung, bladder and cervical cancers are largely attributable to exposure to carcinogens such as UV light and tobacco, whereas brain and spinal cord tumors called gliomas

Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.

Scientists restarted the Large Hadron Collider on April 22 to hunt for dark matter and fringe physics.

Does time exist? The answer to this question may not be as obvious as it first seems.

The worst of this one will miss us, but it is a hint of what's to come.

The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.

NASA's planned effort to communicate with extraterrestrials may provoke an alien invasion, Oxford scientists have warned

Today's stories range from A New Place for Consciousness in Our Understanding of the Universe to Installing the World's Highest Weather Station on Mount Everest to Military Memo Deepens Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery, and much more. The Plan