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 ...

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

According to an app called Sobbefy, answering yes to questions like these meant I could be a love addict. For months, I had ...

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.

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 ...

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

The sight of an open expanse stretching into infinity is a tonic for clearing cluttered minds. Promising silence, solitude ...

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 ...