Becky Ferreira

22 pts Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe's biggest mysteries.

Becky Ferreira For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds.

Astronomers discovered that magnetic activity in the Sun is being squeezed into a more tightly confined area under its surface, which has implications for space weather forecasts and heliophysics.

A new study suggests that bacteria dispersed through space on dust grains could potentially arrive intact and alive on Jupiter's moon Europa.

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker. Welcome back to the Abstract!

Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology.

A massive whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean contains the remains of hundreds of extinct whales dating back more than five million years, along with recent carcasses that support hotspots of seafloor life.

For 150 years, paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern frogs. Immaculately-preserved fossils disprove that, scientists say.

A seismic wave from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake bounced off the Earth's core and hit Japan from below, shifting the entire mainland a quarter-inch eastward.