Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with the theme. The paper, published in The Astronomical Journal, describes them ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

For instance, what if we really are being visited by aliens from other worlds and they turn out to be aggressive, violent, ...

There seems to be a lot of interest in mushrooms and toadstools these days. For no apparent reason, lately my bizarro YouTube algorithm has presented me with a couple of vids from mushroom-hunting ...