EL PASO, Texas - Gangs might be using rideshare apps to help smuggle people into the country, according to officials. What we ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, University of Chicago Law School professor Curtis Bradley explains why ...

Supreme Court rules migrants turned away at the border cannot apply for asylum and blocks TPS recipients from judicial relief ...

The U.S. Supreme Court further limited the reach of a federal law used to hold corporations liable for human rights abuses ​committed abroad, as it issued a ruling on Tuesday ending a lawsuit by ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it far more difficult for foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging serious violations of international law. In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

A divided US Supreme Court put new limits on lawsuits against companies over atrocities abroad, rejecting a suit accusing Cisco Systems Inc. of complicity in China’s torture of Falun Gong adherents.