Over the past 60 years, the Star Trek fandom has picked up a few incorrect "facts" that have wormed their way into pop culture.

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A starseed is a term used to describe a child of the stars — a person who, like an old soul, has lived prior lives on Earth ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

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How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has revealed that most massive stars in the early universe were likely born in ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Of all the posited answers, experts say the Dark Forest hypothesis seems less likely to be correct. It’s possible that ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...