Kelly Dickerson

Remember Tom DeLonge of early-2000s pop-punk band Blink-182? Remember how he took a break from the band to focus on a multimedia project about UFOs and the government? Turns out, the singer-guitarist has contacted Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman…

Many scientists think an Earth-like planet is our best bet for finding alien life, but new research may have just turned that assumption on its head. A paper published Oct. 5 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface suggests that planets with…

Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope spotted balls of scorching-hot plasma twice the size of Mars streaking through the cosmos. These giant "stellar cannonballs" have been erupting once every 8.5 years for the last 400 years, the…

If we're living in a computer simulation like in The Matrix, how would we know? It might be really hard to tell, according to philosophers and physicists.  It seems some leaders in Silicon Valley are taking the possibility seriously. At least two…

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos just successfully tested the in-flight escape system for his reusable New Shepard rocket that could someday carry tourists to the edge of space and back.  During the test flight, the space capsule successfully ejected…

Sometimes, not even a scientist can rule out aliens.  The more we study the star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed "Tabby's star," the more mysterious it becomes. The latest research by astronomers Josh Simon and Ben Montet show Tabby's star has…

There are things happening all around us that we can't see.  If humans could see in wavelengths beyond visible light, the whole cosmos would look like a glowing, sparkling ball of light. Some of that extra light we can't see is made of X-rays that…

Scientists have spent years fussing over Enceladus and Titan. But there's another moon of Saturn with a giant ocean below its surface, and it's been chilling in the background waiting to be discovered. New data from the Cassini spacecraft shows…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they will release the full dash cam and body cam video footage of the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott next week, according to WCNC.  Scott's family requested to see the footage in its entirety and then have it…