If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Researchers Discovered An “Alien Plant” In A 47-Million-Year-Old Fossil. They Say It’s Unlike Any Plant Alive Today. Watch the moment this plane hits a bridge just after takeoff ...

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While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

Hell’s Half Acre, an otherworldly alien landscape in a remote section of central Wyoming is reopening in May. The area was ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

This stone path appears during low tide at Jebudo Island, South Korea. The narrow walkway connects small rocky islets surrounded by shallow turquoise water. This video shows how the tidal road works ...