Tia Ghose

To aid in the search for life on Mars, people should look at the way primitive life on Earth modifies the environment around it.

A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar.

The strange parallel universe on the show "Stranger Things" has some similarities to concepts physicists have proposed in the past.

NASA satellites have captured a stunning image of a massive algal bloom that has overtaken Lake Okeechobee in Florida for more than two months.

A massive asteroid bombarded the early Earth and left a crater hundreds of miles across, new evidence from an ancient rock formation suggests.

Black holes may have hair made up of zero-energy gravitons and photons, meaning they may preserve information, research suggests.

The mysterious disappearance of electrons in the atmosphere could be caused by meteors burning up in the sky, new research suggests.

Physicists have created a so-called magnetic wormhole that transports a magnetic field from one point to the other without being detected.

A number of prominent scientists have signed on to a letter warning that autonomous weapons should be banned.

Elon Musk's company has announced a new competition to build pods for the futuristic Hyperloop transit system.

A new way to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity could imply that the age of the universe is infinite, and that there was no true Big Bang that started it all.

New images from space reveal the storms that are bringing much needed rains to California. Though the storms will help, they won't make much of a dent in the historic drought.

Just a few fundamental physical constants that govern the physics of the universe can be used to predict everything from the size of the tallest mountain on a planet to the size of a neutron star.

Changes in plasma levels around Voyager I revealed that the 70s era spacecraft had entered interstellar space. But even in interstellar space, Voyager is still under the influence of the sun.

Bill Nye is the next celebrity scientist to strut their stuff on the show "Dancing with the Stars"

The incredible energy of comet impacts bombarding the early Earth could have helped create precursor molecules to life

Hollywood may create far-fetched apocalyptic movies, but scientists' visions of planet Earth's doom are even more terrifying

The movie “After Earth” takes plenty of liberties with science but may teach a wide audience about the human impact on the planet.

The world's first commercial spaceport hosted a massive event for one of the summer's biggest action movies, 'After Earth.'

A neat trick for efficiently folding paper could be used to fold and unfurl sails used by cubesats hunting for meteoroids