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

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

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

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

Among the most persistent claims is that extraterrestrials assisted in the construction of ancient civilizations.

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.

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second right, attends a completion ceremony of the new street, called Saeppyol Street in ...