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 ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals . Unexplained gases on other planets. Things mistaken for UFOs ...

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown ...

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 ...

Scientists detected gases on exoplanet K2-18b linked to life on Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope's future results show a ...

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Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems. Experts – and some chefs – are seeking sustainable solutions ...

A new dangerous invasive species — the ocher flatworm — has been found in the Nordic countries. The species has not yet been ...