The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,400 of them. But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't ...