From thrilling breakthroughs to alarming problems, astronomy is full of surprises. This video reveals six good and bad updates that are reshaping how we see the universe.

The investment from Brown parents Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani will support scholars seeking to unlock the potential of RNA ...

Brown’s Giuliani RNA Center and the Rhode Island Life Science Hub co-hosted a symposium focused on how scientists can work ...

Discoveries that prove aliens have visited Earth The persistent human fascination with extraterrestrial life and the ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

The dig site was originally analyzed in the 1950s, when archeologists found an iron oxide mineral called hematite and a waste ...

Created in 1991, the prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes spotlight unconventional studies from around the world that combine ...

Electrons flow underground in ways far more extensive than once believed, forming networks that link distant chemical zones. Minerals, organic molecules, and specialized bacteria can act as bridges, ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...