Alien hunters are buzzing after astronomers discovered 85 potential planets outside our solar system that could harbor life.

Then, in the decades following Miescher's discovery, other scientists--notably ... Watson and Crick may never have reached their groundbreaking conclusion of 1953: that the DNA molecule exists ...

the LHC is most famous for its discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, the "messenger" of the Higgs Field responsible for giving other particles their mass at the dawn of time. The collisions that ...