Long before satellites and GPS, ships in distress had no universal way to call for help. Early wireless operators used random words and company-specific codes, leading to deadly confusion. Eventually, ...

After millions of views and online speculation, the family behind the Plainfield property reveals what really caused the ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

Thousands of Verizon customers reported experiencing a data outage over the past 24 hours. This prevents users from making phone calls and browsing on cellular networks. While Verizon has resolved the ...

Nearly 170,000 Verizon customers reported outages on Jan. 14. According to Downdetector, 169,066 users had logged issues as of 11:50 a.m. The real‑time tracking site shows that 62% of customers are ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope. When you purchase through links on ...

The 19-year-old hiker was rescued from "heavy storm" conditions in Northern California Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office A 19-year-old solo male hiker was showing signs of hypothermia when he was ...

The man's GPS activation device sent his location out to officials via satellite and played a key role in finding him, officers said A 19-year-old hiker was rescued in “heavy storm” conditions in ...

A 19-year-old solo male hiker was showing signs of hypothermia when he was rescued in stormy conditions, officials said The entire rescue mission took around seven hours, deputies said The man's GPS ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

It's difficult to believe that, given the enormous extent of outer space around us, there aren't other life forms out there. Humanity has long been intrigued by the idea, with movies, books, and TV ...