Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Mars, long admired for its rusty hue and alien deserts, may play a far greater role in shaping life on Earth than once ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

Some animals living on Earth appear so unusual that they are often compared to aliens. Their shapes, movements, and behaviors challenge common ideas of what life should look like. Scientists explain ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

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 ...