In an age of artificial intelligence, which voice of authority carries more weight? A priest who’s advised the Vatican weighs in.

The Next Generation or watching the sentient V'Ger search the cosmos for its creator in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene ...

The rock, Clinton said, “speaks to us across … billions of years and millions of miles. It speaks of the possibility of life.

Some worry that it undercuts the Bible’s account of the Earth and humanity as the centerpiece of God’s plan for the universe, ...

In other words, why is there something rather than nothing? This ultimate mystery in philosophy and physics has been called ...

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave ...

His name was Adi Shankaracharya. Unlike so many others who claimed to speak for a distant God or a distant Tradition, he came as a philosopher with a radical and uncompromising message. This message ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak occurs on a cruise ship, scientists warn that microplastics may be contributing to climate warming, and a retreating-glacier‑triggered landslide unleashed a massive Alaska ...