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Rethinking the “Goldilocks Zone”: Astronomers May Have Been Looking for Life in the Wrong Places

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark sides of tidally locked planets or beneath thick ice on distant worlds. For decades, the search for alien life has...

Mar 06, 2026

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Scientists Discover Molecular “Switch” That Could Stop Breast Cancer From Spreading

This 5-Day Brain Treatment Is Giving People With Depression New Hope

How the wording of a trigger warning changes our psychological response

How Reliable Is the Science on Microplastics in the Human Body? Some Experts Urge Caution

Nearly One Third of Gen Z Men Say a Wife Should Obey Her Husband — Twice as Likely as Baby Boomers

Drugs Behind the Ozempic Weight-Loss Boom May Also Lower the Risk of Addiction

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won't Strike the Moon in 2032, Negating the Chance of a Violent Lunar Impact

Noise Sensitivity Can Be Difficult to Diagnose and Even Harder to Treat

Do Ozempic and Similar Weight Loss Drugs Work for Everyone? New Study Has Answers

Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem

Bird Watchers Uncover a Staggering 27 Percent Purple Martin Die-Off During the Great Texas Freeze

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Station Resupply Launch

How a handful of koalas are changing scientists understanding of genetic risk

The most eco-friendly burial option isn’t cremation or human composting

The Moon is drifting away from Earth, and it’s slowing our spin

Why replacing Anthropic at the Pentagon could take months

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

VLT Image Captures a "Cosmic Hawk" Spanning its Wings.

Longest snake ever measured is over 23.5 feet long

The weird rule that holds our reality together may be breaking

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how to reduce it

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun

A quirk of geology explains Iran's oil—and why it's stuck in the Persian Gulf

NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

Mumps infections reveal that vaccine-preventable illnesses are resurging in the U.S.

NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

Dating and breakups take a heavy emotional toll on adolescent mental health

How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

Rethinking the “Goldilocks Zone”: Astronomers May Have Been Looking for Life in the Wrong Places

Confusing Scientists for Decades: Lunar Rocks Reveal Surprising Truth About the Moon’s Magnetic Field

Track NASA’s Artemis II Mission in Real Time

The best new popular science books of March 2026

Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse

A Mysterious Mineral on Mars May Rewrite the Planet’s Geologic History

A White House Briefing Changed How Doctors Prescribed Drugs Overnight

Mussel-Inspired Spray Cuts Immune Rejection in Transplants

Combo GLP-1 therapy shows fat loss while preserving lean mass

Abortion stigma persists at moderate levels in high-income countries

Ancient Mayan water filters stopped a lot—just not mercury poisoning

Weekends on the Space Station

Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty

Earth’s Warming Rate Has Nearly Doubled Since 2015

Purple Martins Caught in Texas Deep Freeze Died from Cold, Not Starvation

Scientists Use Light To Evolve Proteins That Switch Like Tiny Computers

The remarkable brains of ‘SuperAgers’ hold clues about how we age

163 surrendered rats seek new homes in Massachusetts