While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Children’s book experts Lucy Mann and Bee Quammie are tapped into what tweens and teens are reading this summer.  On The Next ...

I did not review Supergirl, because it is Den of Geek policy that if you travel for a project at the studio’s request—say, for example, a set visit—you might not be impartial. I think it’s a smart ...

A powerful figure in the music industry, Clive Davis is credited with launching the careers of some of its biggest stars.

Three Cuban nationals, including a former employee of a Cuban government-linked organisation sanctioned by the United States ...