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Humans may, one day, be able to inhabit other planets. Some advocates argue that remaining on only one courts disaster.

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there are actual living creatures strange enough to appear mythical. They have ...

Colombia’s president has issued a stark warning that relations with Washington have entered a dangerous phase, saying recent ...

Jupiter's Hill radius on 16 March 2026. Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests the object could release a 96th moon, marking a potential ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

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

Fossils from Denmark suggest ammonites survived the asteroid extinction far longer than believed, raising new questions about ...