Scientists may have found the strongest hint yet that life could exist beyond Earth, and the focus is not Mars but a distant ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has discovered 31 new species of marine organisms off the coast of Brazil. Among the ...

'This one's exciting.' ...

Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems.

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

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

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 ...

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

An unusual destination in the Caribbean that some call the "eighth wonder of the world" is a scientific marvel with life ...