The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

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Even though I was always a logophile and I taught English for a year or two, my first love in academe was history. I think my love of history is in my DNA because my first exposure to historical texts ...

It's circling the drain. The post Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company appeared first on Futurism.

What was supposed to be the final day of a picture-perfect vacation quickly turned into a nightmare for one Pittsburgh-area family when a hazard in a resort pool caused a devastating injury to their ...

The parents of a 3-year-old Pittsburgh girl who nearly died after she became trapped by suction from a wading pool drain at a resort in Mexico last year are suing the drain’s manufacturer. Adam ...

The Trump administration has been a disaster for science. The post China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World’s Scientific Superpower appeared first on Futurism.

Steven Spielberg took a bit of a jab at Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments alluding to the cultural irrelevance of art forms like ballet and opera, during an appearance Friday at SXSW. Asked about ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitable. In their study, ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

This video breaks down why K2-18b has become one of the most talked-about planets in the search for alien life. A team at Cambridge says its atmosphere may contain the strongest biosignature evidence ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond our planet. Reading time 3 minutes In humanity’s search for life beyond Earth ...