The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

University Medical Center in Lubbock announced its first baby of 2026 was a boy born in the early morning hours Thursday, Jan. 1, with the first baby at Covenant Children's arriving shortly after. UMC ...

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The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Covenant Children’s Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2026 at 1:51 a.m. Thursday. Kolter Wayne Franklin weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 22 inches long. His parents, ...

SAGINAW CO., Mich. (WNEM) – Covenant HealthCare Children’s Hospital is celebrating its first baby born in 2026. AJ was born at 5:49 a.m. on Jan. 1, the Hospital said. He weighed seven pounds and six ...

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar ...