When an enormous being plummets from space, a small Nebraska town gets raided by scientists and cultists alike.

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Astrobiology Club at the University seeks to break down misconceptions of alien life and create a space for scientific discussions.

Barren Island, the only active volcano in the Indian subcontinent, rises dramatically from the Andaman Sea, offering a stark ...

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

If someone tried to put a price tag on Earth, what would that number even be based on? Land, oceans, ecosystems, raw ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Britons might be surprised to learn how much hatred their country receives from Russia - with threats of nuclear obliteration ...

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...