"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

It is 2016 and I am staring into space in my tent at Glastonbury. According to scientists, it’s the hottest year since ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Named for their plump, pink, and rounded bodies, sea pigs are very abundant, but you are unlikely to ever see one, living as ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways ...

New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

Beneath Europa's icy shell lies an ocean vaster than Earth's. But is its hidden world buzzing with life, or silent as the ...